According to a recent poll of the All-Russian Public Opinion Research Center, almost 60% of Russians are living with a feeling of instability in the country, this causes anxiety among another 44%. Meanwhile, 2021 will become quite a politicised year because elections of a new composition of the State Duma are ahead in Russia. What role can social media play in the fight for voters’ votes? And should politicians use them? Sociologists, political experts, deputies discussed these and other questions during a discussion at a meeting of Volga expert club. Realnoe Vremya’s correspondent listened to the discussion.
Russians lost trust in the mass media and were disappointed with the party of power
More than 1,5 billion rubles were allocated for the implementation of the youth policy in Tatarstan last year. With this money, new health camps were built, youth centres were created, major repairs were carried out in youth clubs, more than 30,000 events were held both offline and online, and participation in various federal projects and victory in them brought young activists more than 125 million rubles in the form of grants, said Minister of Youth Affairs of Tatarstan Damir Fattakhov at the final board meeting of the agency. Read more about the problems of young people, including in the context of recent protest rallies, in the material of Realnoe Vremya.