Russian in the System of Social Interactions: Level of Trust and Support Capacity

Basing on the data of the representative sociological survey, implemented by Institute of Social Analysis and Forecasting RANEPA in 2023, features of social interactions have been viewed what seems relevant in the context of objectives of support and improvement of Russians’ well-being in terms of both their emotional comfort and opportunities for necessary encouragement and assistance. The results show that most of the population is out of situation of social loneliness, however, less than a half of respondents possess significant circle of trustful communications. Quite high social stated social trust is noted towards representatives of the “close circle”, whereas trust to state institutes and official mass media is significantly lower. The integral indicator of subjective breadth of interpersonal and institutional trust counted by the authors does not exceed of the average level for half of population and is high only for 20%. Actual recipients of regular interpersonal financial transfers are 19% of Russians, and most often - representative of youth and senior cohorts. Resource potential of the population, consisting in prospects of application of social interaction system to overcome appearing difficulties, seems significant, nevertheless problems of deficit in effective institutional channels and presence of deprived groups of population are explicit.