Paul
Goble
Staunton, May 24 – A new
international survey conducted by the Deloitte Company finds that members of
General Y, those aged 24 to 35, distrust institutions far more than their
parents and that this pattern is far greater among Russian young people than it
is among their counterparts in other countries.
The company found, Moscow commentator
Dmitry Milin says, that members of this age group around the world are
disappointed in traditional institutions. On average, 73 percent say current
political leaders aren’t capable of making the world better, and 66 percent say
that religious leaders aren’t either (kasparov.ru/material.php?id=5CE80B3652510).
In Russia, the share of those
holding these views is significantly higher: 82 percent of Russian young people
say that political leaders can’t improve things, and 86 percent say the same
thing about religious leaders, an obvious indictment not only of the Putin
regime but especially of the Moscow Patriarchate.
According to Deloitte, 29 percent of
young people on average around the world are satisfied with their lives, but in
Russia, only 18 percent are. And Russian young people do not expect to see the
improvements others do. Only 11 percent of the Russians predict improvement in the
future while 26 percent of the international sample do.
A major explanation for this, Milin says,
is the unhappiness many young people feel about the country’s political regime
and its pressure on them especially via propaganda. Far more of them want to go
abroad, 70 percent, than is the case of the international sample, in which only
57 percent expressed a similar desire.
Deloitte polled 301 Russians for
this survey. Almost all of them were drawn from major cities in European
Russia. That may very well mean that the real Russian figures of despair among
this age group are even higher for the country as a whole – or it may mean that
anger and unhappiness are especially common in large urban areas.
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