An old woman sells flowers. Same as ten years ago, not so many Russians refer themselves to the middle class and quite a few expect from Putin’s government to take efficient actions to contain inflation.
Photo: Oleg Kharseev
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The Nation Wants Material Benefits from PM
Same as ten years ago, not so many Russians refer themselves to the middle class. So, quite a few expect from Putin’s government to take efficient actions to contain inflation, step up income and improve life as a whole, signaled last week’s poll of All-Russia’s Public Opinion Center.
All-Russia’s Public Opinion Center holds it polls aimed at determining the nation’s opinion about the welfare from 1998. The respondents are offered to refer themselves to one of five categories – beggars lacking money for food and clothes, the poor with money enough for food, pre-middle class with money enough for food, clothes but not for the moderate-price household devices, the middle class that lacks money only for truly expensive things, ranging from cars to flats and summer cottages, and the wealthy, whose desires aren’t limited by money.
The number of wealthy was 1 percent in May, same as in May of 1998 on the eve of the August collapse. None of respondents was decisive enough to acknowledge himself/herself the wealthy from 1999 through 2007.
The number of beggars sank from 28 percent to 7 over the period and the number of poor lowered from 41 percent to 24 percent. The Russians of pre-middle class widened from 24 percent to 51 percent, while the middle class soared from 7 percent to 16 percent.
At the same time, the nation in Russia apparently realizes that the well-being depends on the cabinet’s decisions to the greatest extent. At least those who heard Vladimir Putin’s speech in the State Duma May 8 (when he was endorsed as the country’s PM) singled out containing inflation as the top priority. Some 54 percent of respondents said that topic was the absolute highlight of that speech. In general, the guidelines voiced by Putin that day pleased 74 percent of those who heard the speech, and only 6 percent didn’t like them.
www.kommersant.com
All the Article in Russian as of June 02, 2008
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