Moscow, 31 July: Fewer and fewer Russians complain that they live a hard life, the number of those was 51 per cent last June against 60 per cent in December 2011, sociologists from VTsIOM (All-Russia Centre for the Study of Public Opinion) have said, noting that such opinion is expressed mainly by elderly people (66 per cent) and villagers (60 per cent).
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At the same time the number of those who asseess their life situation as favourable increased from 27 to 38 per cent. Most of the optimists are young people (50 per cent), well-to-do people (59 per cent) and Moscow residents (51 per cent).

Those "who cannot stand a distressful situation anymore" (8 per cent) - and they mainly live in big cities (14 per cent) - are in minority, shows poll carried out by VTsIOM in June in 138 localities in 46 Russian regions.

A relative majority of Russians believe that the hardest times have not come to their lives yet (38 per cent). The rest of the respondents tend to think that they have already survived or are surviving now their main difficulties (26 per cent in each group). As a comparison, the number of such respondents in March was 30 and 24 per cent, correspondingly.

According to VTsIOM, the respondents aged between 35 and 59 (43 per cent), middle-income Russians (41-42 per cent) and residents of big cities (50 per cent) are sure that hard times are waiting for them in future. In turn, young people (33 per cent), well-to-do Russians (38 per cent) and Moscow residents (35 per cent) are confident that they have already passed their difficult period.

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Moscow, 31 July: Fewer and fewer Russians complain that they live a hard life, the number of those was 51 per cent last June against 60 per cent in December 2011, sociologists from VTsIOM (All-Russia Centre for the Study of Public Opinion) have said, noting that such opinion is expressed mainly by elderly people (66 per cent) and villagers (60 per cent).

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At the same time the number of those who asseess their life situation as favourable increased from 27 to 38 per cent. Most of the optimists are young people (50 per cent), well-to-do people (59 per cent) and Moscow residents (51 per cent).

Those "who cannot stand a distressful situation anymore" (8 per cent) - and they mainly live in big cities (14 per cent) - are in minority, shows poll carried out by VTsIOM in June in 138 localities in 46 Russian regions.

A relative majority of Russians believe that the hardest times have not come to their lives yet (38 per cent). The rest of the respondents tend to think that they have already survived or are surviving now their main difficulties (26 per cent in each group). As a comparison, the number of such respondents in March was 30 and 24 per cent, correspondingly.

According to VTsIOM, the respondents aged between 35 and 59 (43 per cent), middle-income Russians (41-42 per cent) and residents of big cities (50 per cent) are sure that hard times are waiting for them in future. In turn, young people (33 per cent), well-to-do Russians (38 per cent) and Moscow residents (35 per cent) are confident that they have already passed their difficult period.