This was a new type of thinking,
it explained the support of prehistorical from most of Soviet people
especially in the cities where the middle class was significant.
The shock reforms, this integration of Soviet Union and
the global social economic crisis in 1990s,
in fact damage all results of middle class development.
People lost their money in the state bank system, they lost trust.
Now, middle class grows, but it doesn't dominate.
It can explain the priorities and the list of criteria for middle class in Russia.
The elected, therefore, representative of the Russian middle class,
values and self-identification are more important than a level of money.
If we compare the Russian middle class with the Western, European,
or an American middle class, we will see that in Russia
this social group is mainly poorer than the Western one.
But once again, I would like to say that for Russian middle class values and
the self identification are much more important.
Exempt to this the Russian social composition is rather diverse owing
to dynamic and diverse rates during the last century.
The age structure of the population varies in contemporary Russia.
There are two perils made by significant increase of birth rate
in the 20th century.
The first well known baby boom occurred immediately after World War II.
It was a change of trend that was large and expected.
The second baby boom took place during the era of stagnation.
At the slide, you can see two generation of baby boomers and
some demographic beats.
The baby boom generation is technologically competent, well educated
and has different expectations from those of previous generation.
After that, at the beginning of the 1919s, demographic crisis has operated.
Never the less, population segments led to difficult with
collection of taxes and parliament of descent pensions.
The officials subsistence level now is rather low,
it could be called like extreme poverty.
Still the calculation of pension and
government assistant are based on that information.
And it's rather important for
understanding of social dynamic of Russian society.
And this slide you can see difference between salaries received in region and
in Moscow and Saint-Petersburg.
This mean not only economy, but also social and value gap.
Dissatisfaction among regions creates a negative impact on
the cooperation process.
The most memorable segment of the population are pensions.
The pension is rather small.
It's about $300 a month, and irrespective of where they live.
As you can see, there are few pensions among the representatives
of the middle class in Russia.
A retirement in Russia is often perceived as both, a moral and financial tragedy.
Because of these pensioners tend to work as long as they could.
This becomes a problem for a new generation of employers and
provokes intergenerational conflicts.
Considering social research results, we can conclude that majority
of the population believed that our society organization is unfair.
It's more than 60% of population.
Injustice has become a part of daily routine.
At the same time, the huge salary is for official and
the source of constant frustration for the ordinary people and
popular term for the political discussion during the last 20 years.
It can be illustrated on example in a position leader Alexei Navalny.
He would like to draw public attention to extreme reach [INAUDIBLE] cause and
watchers of some officials, deputies, ministers and legit.
Public opinion or foundation or would you prefer this research
is rather loyal to public administration system.
And in fact they result from the oppositions to
structure is much more diverse.
Here you can see probably the main question addressed to our
government from the citizen.
It is a painful paradox.
The poverty in a land which is so rich in natural resource.
Although people understand the proceeds of selling oil, gas,
and coal are distributed unfairly.
By the way, it's about 72% of population.
They still have greater faith in the state than in private organization.
They split all of their forms, but the tradition of Russia persists strong.
And this bar chart shows the change size of the middle
class in Russia from 2003 to 2015.
In particular, it demonstrates
that the middle class increased
through the 2003 to 2008.
This research was made by the Russian Academic of Science and
it demonstrates a stable growth, but it is an optimistic scenario.
Some of political researchers and oppositional deputies
has an information that the middle class in Russia now is not more than 7%.
I'm absolutely sure that it all depends on criterias.
