This survey was conducted September 25–30, 2020, among a representative sample of all Russian urban and rural residents. The sample was comprised of 1605 people aged 18 or older in 137 municipalities of 50 regions of the Russian Federation. The survey was conducted as a personal interview in respondents’ homes. The answer distribution is presented as percentages of the total number of respondents.
The statistical error of these studies for a sample of 1600 people (with a probability of 0.95) does not exceed:
3.4% for indicators around 50%
2.9% for indicators around 25%/75%
2.0% for indicators around 10%/90%
1.5% for indicators around 5%/95%
WHICH EVENTS IN THE LAST FOUR WEEKS HAVE BEEN MOST MEMORABLE FOR YOU? (respondents named the events THEMSELVES and could name more than one; ranked in descending order.)
| Sep 20 | |
| Coronavirus: regional lockdown status, the “second wave,” the “mask regime” | 19 |
| Events in Belarus after the presidential elections, mass protests | 19 |
| A single voting day | 12 |
| Poisoning of Alexey Navalny | 8 |
| Armed confrontation in Nagorno-Karabakh | 5 |
| An-26 military plane crash near Kharkiv | 3 |
| Protests of residents in Khabarovsk Krai | 2 |
| Flooding in the Far East | 2 |
| September 1st, beginning of the academic year | 2 |
| Events connected with Putin (meeting with Alexander Lukashenko, appearance before the U.N. General Assembly) | 2 |
| Vacation | 2 |
| Creation of the coronavirus vaccine, beginning of immunization | 2 |
| The Mikhail Efremov case | 1 |
| Events in the U.S.: protests and the election campaign | 1 |
| Forest fires in the Voronezh and Rostov Oblasts | 1 |
| Regional events: stepping down of regional leaders, improvements | 1 |
| Changing exchange rates, decline of the ruble | 1 |
| City Day | 1 |
| Price increases, unemployment | 1 |
| Accidents, traffic accidents | 1 |
| Personal events in respondents’ lives | 7 |
| Other events (earthquake near Lake Baikal, amendments to the Russian Federation’s constitution, etc.) | 9 |
| No memorable events | 17 |
| It is difficult to say | 15 |
Translated by Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey (formerly Monterey Institute of International Studies).
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