The majority of the Russians speak well of the CIS and the European Union. However, their attitude towards NATO and the USA is so negative that the majority of Russia’s citizens think that in the soviet times the world has been safer than today. Such are the results of the latest survey held by the sociologists of the VCIOM (All-Russia Public Opinion Research Center).

The majority of Russians still appreciates highly Vladimir Putin and is fully content with his Prime Minister post. But the majority would not like to change the presidential form of government to the parliamentary one in Russia. Such is the result of the last public opinion polls conducted by the analytic Levada Center.

Russians have adapted themselves on the whole to the new economic relations for the 15-year reforms period as considers the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) corresponding member, RAS Sociology Institute director Mikhail Gorshkov. He spoke at the press-conference devoted to the 50th anniversary of sociology revival in Russia.
According to the scientist “90% of population considers that proprietary right should be sacred”.

Inhabitants of large cities of Russia spend RUR 3000-4600 ($120 - $184) for children monthly. Such poll conducted the international research company Nielsen (ACNielsen) among 2100 people in five Russian cities: Moscow, St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Yekaterinburg and Samara. According to the research, about the third of this money get chain stores. According to the data of Nielsen, there are more than 50 chains of baby-goods stores in Russia today.

According to the data of the All-Russian Public Opinion Research Center (ARPORC), today young people in Russia do not aspire to make a career because of uncertainty in their future professional success. The majority of Russian inhabitants at the age of 18-35 years old (this is the very age interval that is defined as “youth”) skeptically estimates their career prospects. ARPORC has studied the viewpoints of 1600 people from 153 settlements, in 46 regions, territories and republics of Russia and has come to the following conclusion: about a quarter of interviewees (24 %) considers that it is a little bit easier to become successful in creative sphere, than in business, management, and especially in politics. The answer is predictable if to consider, that now there are many propositions from mass media representatives to become a star or even a people’s artist. It appears that not only teenagers, who go to school, but also quite conscious citizens trust the promise that to become well-known equally means to become rich.

So, only 71% of Russians have free time. Still, only 31% among them believe that they have enough free time, and 40% complain of its lack. Also, 27% have specified, that they practically do not have free time at all. The most “free” people are elderly Russians: two thirds of them (64%) do have free time and that’s enough for them. The most “busy” are people of 25-59 years old, 32-35% of them are in a constant mad rush. In spite of this, most of the interviewees (51%) consider that rest and leisure conditions became better in Russia for the last years. Two years ago only 41% of interviewees had the same point of view. At the same time, the number of those who complain about deterioration of leisure conditions has decreased (from 26% up to 17%).

The All-Russian Public Opinion Research Center (ARPORC) presents the facts, how Russians estimate inflation as a whole and a price rise of food products in particular. What causes of inflation do they see? The number of the interviewees estimating inflation in the country as very high has increased for three months, from July till October, 2007, by 30% (from 52% to 82%). At the same time the amount of those who consider a price rise reasonable or very slight has decreased (from 8% to 1% and from 35% to 13% accordingly).

Within the bounds of the corporate program of macroeconomic research the Rosgosstrakh (the Russian state insurance company) calculated a number of indices which define economical state of Russians living in cities and towns of Russia.
As it was reported by insurance company, the pole, which was the ground for index calculation, was carried out in summer, 2007. It covered 44 cities with population of more than 100 thousand people. 13 thousand 764 people were polled.

Presently, Putin remains a national leader who trusts the majority of Russians. One got such an impression after the All-Russian Public Opinion Research Center has published the results of the opinion survey about the so-called «Putin’s plan». The main question was raised in wait for scheduled elections for the State Duma and after the sensational decision of the president to chair the party “United Russia”: do electors agree that the political course of Putin proceed? What is the essence of this plan? 1 600 people in 153 settlements, in 46 regions, territories and republics of Russia were asked for report drawing.

The All-Russian Center for Opinion Surveys (ARCOS) presents information about what the Russians think about modern countryside and agriculture in whole. Most respondents (65%) see the countryside as not only a place of abode of people but also as a source of spirituality of the nation and its singularity. And this spiritualizing of the countryside is more typical of townspeople than for villagers (66% and 62%). One third of the Russians (32%) considers the country to be the ordinary place of abode as cities and settlements.