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Valery Fedorov, Director General of All-Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VTSIOM)
Let's start with world events, not something that happens only in Russia,
but what happens in the world as a whole.
Here is the following hierarchy: in the first place there are various events in the Middle East.
You know, this is the conflict in Syria, all sorts of unrest in Egypt,
the next war in the Gaza Strip, and so on.
They were combined into one group of the events in the Middle East.
And they were, according to the Russians, the most important international event of the year.
In the second place there is the victory of Barack Obama in the presidential election (23%).
Finally, the third London Olympics get 16%.
For comparison, last year in Russia, two events shared the first place -
the revolution in Libya and the earthquake, flood, nuclear accident in Japan, famous Fukushima.
The economic crisis was in the third place, including the crisis in the eurozone.
This year, again, for comparison, I'll give you the list of the events
that in Ukraine are considered important world events.
It differs from our list.
In the first place there are a variety of natural disasters in the United States, Japan, Russia,
typhoons, tornadoes, floods and so on.
In the second place there is Euro 2012.
It is also understandable, because Ukraine was one of two countries that hosted the championship.
And the U.S. presidential election is in third place in the list of major events.
Now we are going to the events in Russia. Here, of course, the list is completely different.
In the first place there is the March presidential election,
followed by the flooding in Krymsk in July this year,
and the third is a series of corruption scandals,
the most well-known of them, of course, was a scandal in the Ministry of Defense, an autumn event.
For comparison, in Ukraine the main events were the Euro 2012,
parliamentary elections in autumn, and the trial of Tymoshenko.
Next slide - the most high-profile events of the year. There is the following hierarchy:
the first place is taken by presidential election, followed by the summer floods in the Kuban,
and the third is Olympic Games in London. That is, these are the same events.
Next, there is corruption, the resignation of Serdyukov, plane crash of the ATR-72 at Tyumen,
celebrating Christmas and New Year in the previous year, the death of Marina Golub in a traffic accident,
the mass *** in American school , the death of Galina Vishnevskaya
and the *** of five people in the office by lawyer Vinogradov.
In the top ten, as we have seen, there are a large number of accidents, deaths and crimes.
Next slide - another category, traditionally sad, "Loss of the year".
These are the famous people whose death has caused the greatest impact on public opinion.
These are Marina Golub, Galina Vishnevskaya, Ilya Oleinikov and Igor Kvasha.
Internet audience. How did we assess the perception of main events by online audience?
There is a rating of blogs made by Yandex, which also has a very regular basis.
And we compared the events of one and another list, the top ten.
And here's an interesting result - there is only one event in the two lists at once.
This is the death of Marina Golub. All other events are completely different.
That is, the Internet audience is a very special audience.
And these are blogs, that is, not the ones who go to the Internet but those who write on the Internet.
People, the human dimension. Let's start with the politicians of the year.
Since the number one event was the election of the president, we will start with the politicians.
Who is the politician of the year for the Russians?
This is a big secret, but you have probably guessed, this is Vladimir Putin.
54% called him a politician of the year. In the second place, there was Dmitry Medvedev, 16%.
And the third - this is, by the way, quite unexpected - Sergei Shoigu,
probably the brightest star in the political field, which this year will once again appeared.
It was a double "restart".
He pushed V. V. Zhirinovsky, who had regularly for four years held the third position, from the third place.
Now he left this position. Top-3 of the politicians of the year - Putin, Medvedev and Shoigu.
Next nomination - "Writer of the Year." Here, too, there are enough "new faces".
Darya Dontsova is in the first place with 8%, followed by Boris Akunin, however, by a large margin - 3%,
and the third place was shared by Tatyana Ustinova and Aleksandra Marinina (2%).
Dontsova this year got a lot of votes,
because, for example, last year she was in the second place with 3%,
and Akunin was even a little ahead. And Ustinova remained in the third place.
So there is no powerful upgrade of the block of Russian writers, not only politicians.
"Athlete of the Year." Athlete of the year of 2012 is Evgeni Plushenko.
The last time he was athlete of the year was in 2007, 5 years ago,
and now he came back - he scored 9%.
Andrei Arshavin is in the second place. Incidentally, he was the athlete of the year last year, in 2011.
And Maria Sharapova is in the third place.
For comparison, last year, as I said, Andrei Arshavin was number one,
Fedor Yemelyanenko went after him, and Zaitseva was in the third place.
"Singer of the Year." Here again, there are familiar faces. Stas Mikhailov is in first place with 9%.
Last year he was third. The second place is shared by Nikolai Baskov and Philipp Kirkorov,
and Alla Pugacheva is in the third place.
For comparison, in 2011, Philipp Kirkorov was in the first place, Nikolai Baskov was second,
and Stas Mikhailov was third.
In general, the rotation is negligible.
"Actor and Actress of the Year." Sergei Bezrukov is in the first place, 7%;
in the past year, he was again in the first place.
Marina Golub and Konstantin Khabenskiy shared the second place, 4%.
Last year he was in sixth place. And Michael Porechenkov gained 3%.
Last year, in the top three, besides Bezrukov, there were Averin and Yevgeny Mironov.
The main feeling with which we celebrate the New Year.
People could choose one of three options: "a good mood, a sense of optimism,"
"a bad mood, low expectations",
or "secondary, intermediate, do not feel anything special, but without negative emotions."
Here are the results of our research on this subject for the last 7 years.
Let us compare our results with this gap.
In 2005, 17% met the New Year with a bad mood, pessimistic expectations.
Further, this share declined. In 2007, it even was 8%, but then the crisis came,
and in 2008 the New Year of 2009 was celebrated with pessimism by over 20% respondents.
But it was not long, this negative trend.
Already in 2009, the percentage of pessimists again sharply decreased to 11%, and today it is 10%.
In principle, it is kept at a stable level. 10% have a negative feeling celebrating the New Year.
As for positive expectations, there were 30% in 2005 and 34% in 2012.
It is quite a small increase, frankly.
And the largest number of optimists was in 2007, the last pre-crisis year,
when it seemed that everything is fine, and everything will continue to only get better.
Then there were 40% optimists.
But the majority, both 7 years ago and now, then 52%, now 54% -
those who have no special feelings, but do not feel negative emotions.