They ask for a way out

Who votes for the resignation of the prime minister

“Putin must leave” - under this appeal, published on the website Putinavotstavku.ru, by the end of May more than 46 thousand people put their signatures. The New Times, using the methods adopted in the statistics of political research, analyzed this data
Of the 35,018 analyzed signatures that appeared under the slogan, “Putin must leave”, 80% of Russian citizens occur, 8% - at near and far abroad, 12% did not indicate the place of residence. Total: 28,014 new opponents of Putin President appeared in the country.

Geography , according to the Public Opinion of the Foundation (FOM), 25 million 800 thousand people enter the network daily, thus open “anti -Putins” amount to 0.1%. It is interesting that in April, compared with March (the appeal was published on March 10), the number of those who indicated their place of residence has doubled (see The New Times

No. 10 of March 22, 2010 ). They stop being afraid or try in this way to draw attention to the problems of their region?

The Volga Federal District turned out to be the most active votes in the votes of votes during this time: the number of votes increased 6.9 times and reached 9.2% - the third result among all districts of the Russian Federation. The Central and Ural federal districts growed at a slightly less pace and gave 6.4% and 6.2% of signatures, respectively.

The residents of Moscow (and the region) and St. Petersburg (and the Leningrad region) were the least active in April, although they still have almost half (45%) from all Putin go away. Which, however, is not surprising: the Internet penetration in Moscow, according to Thomas and Yandex, is significantly ahead of the regions: 55.4% of the residents of the capital use the Internet (for comparison: in the Southern Federal District-only 24.5%), and 0.2% of the Internet Moscow from Putin are already tired.

Who is against? The ranks of Putin’s opponents in April seriously replenished women - their share increased from 17% to 21%. Moreover, in Moscow and St. Petersburg, the activity of women is higher than men: 42% of women account for Moscow and 17% in St. Petersburg, men have 36% and 14%, respectively. The lowest activity of women in the North Caucasus. Women in economically developed regions, as studies show, are much freer and independent than women living in less favorable conditions, and new data confirm this once again.

Representatives of working professions (“Blue collars”) began to express their “no”: their share increased from 15% to 23%, and they became absolute leaders compared to the “anti -Putins” of other professions. Moreover, it was in April, when the prime minister said a lot about the crisis that the crisis was overcome and the economy reached the growth trajectory, the “blue collars” gave the greatest increase in signatures: their activity increased 6.8 times.

A little less - 6.5 times - the number of signatures of unemployed and, notes, independent entrepreneurs (mainly owners of small and medium -sized companies) increased: the share of non -working ones increased from 2% to 3%, and businessmen - from 4% to 6%.

The number of Russian politicians and human rights defenders who did not agree with the current authority grew 2.5 times, but in absolute terms their number remains insignificant - 240 people per 28 thousand signatures (almost 1%).

The number of “anti -Putins” is growing among state employees and the military, although they are the subject of constant care of the prime minister - in any case, judging by the television picture. The percentage of their signatures increased to 19% - this is the second largest category of Putin's opponents. Following them are representatives of “white collar” (lawyers, economists, managers, analysts) - their share fell by 9% compared to the end of March and at the time of the study was 12%.

During the study , the authors tried to identify the dependence between the protest activity on the Putinavotstavku.ru website and the economic situation in a particular region. It was assumed that the level of protest should be associated with the level of unemployment and the investment attractiveness of the region. However, it was not possible to detect clear ties due to a lack of information, since visitors to the site actually answered only one question related to the resignation of the prime minister, and their opinion was unequivocal: “Putin should leave!”

At the same time, curious distributions of the answers of the site visitors were discovered. So, the largest number of representatives of the working professions did not come from those regions where industrial production collapsed, but from Moscow and St. Petersburg, where the salaries are higher and the unemployment rate is low, and in general the situation is better than the country (see table). Following the capitals - the Volga Federal District (here are located for more than a month on the verge of a disaster and AvtoVAZ and UAZ): he gave 12% of the protest votes of the Blue Collar.

However, the Economic troubles became the trigger that prompted people to put their signature under the appeal, or the well -known fatigue from the stay of the same person in the news of the Goskanals (as many in the comments on their electronic signatures on the site, “Putin simply“ got us ”) - it remains only to guess.