Population’s Material Well-Being Assessment

Optimism registered in H1 2015 about the extent and duration of crisis phenomena gave way to growth in negative expectations. The latest survey carried out within the frameworks of permanent research in social well-being of the Russians by the RANEPA's Institute of Social Analysis and Forecasting points to that explicitly. The share of those who believe that the situation changed much for the worse rose by 12% as compared to November 2015 and amounted to last year's values when panic sentiments of the end of 2014 – beginning of 2015 were observed