CROS: Moscow and St. Petersburg became the most disturbing regions of Russia in 2021
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In 2021, Moscow and St. Petersburg became the most troubling regions in Russia. This was reported by RBC with reference to a study by the analytical department of the Public Relations Development Company (CROS).
It is clarified that the regions were divided into three groups depending on the susceptibility of their residents to problems and fears: anxious, balanced and unperturbed. Among the first were Moscow, St. Petersburg, Vologda Oblast, Perm Krai, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Novgorod Oblast, Tyumen Oblast, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Crimea and Krasnodar Krai.
The balanced ones include the Kursk region, Kaliningrad region, Kaluga region, Tatarstan, Trans-Baikal Territory, Volgograd Region, Tula Region, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Tver Region and Irkutsk Region. The group of unperturbed people included Ingushetia, Chechnya, Kabardino-Balkaria, Karachay-Cherkessia, Yakutia, Dagestan, Chukotka, Adygea, Sakhalin Oblast and Kalmykia.
According to experts, there were different reasons for concern in different regions. So, in Moscow and St. Petersburg, the main reasons for alarm were the COVID-19 pandemic, in the Perm Territory – an increase in violent crimes, and in the Crimea and Krasnodar Territory – weather anomalies.
In 2020, the level of anxiety among Russians due to the coronavirus pandemic was the highest in the post-Soviet space and peaked on April 8 last year.
