Igor Aidman: "Three Russia"

"The country is split. There are at least three different Russia, which have various values ​​and goals and have little intersecting among themselves," the sociologist writes on his Facebook page.

"Russia-1-the country of privileged, rich, close to the authorities, beneficiaries of the regime. This is about 1% of the population, which, according to Credit Suisse, belongs to three quarters of the national wealth of the country: higher officials, security officials associated with them large business.

Russia-2 is the country of Russian Europeans mainly from large cities: the westernized part of youth, middle class and intelligentsia. Its population is about 12% of Russians who are important to feel like people of Western culture. Most likely, these are in many ways the same people as those who recognize Crimea are not ours (10%), but the rights of an individual who are above the interests of the state (13%). The percentage of respondents who show their commitment to European values ​​in answers to other important questions (in reality are slightly more, not everyone is deciding to demonstrate their dissidentism) is close to these figures.

However, the bulk of the Russians live in Russia-3-the country of the unprivileged and non-European "deep people", the "Crimean majority" (86% supporting the annexation of Crimea). These people live in many ways, according to the traditional, which has not changed enough for centuries to the Russian "Adat". According to it, the whole world is divided into "his" and "strangers." A good, correct owner: a husband in a family, a master in an estate, an officer in the army, the king in the state - should be strict to cruelty. His task is not only to protect against "strangers", but also to punish the presumptuous "his", including his own environment.

The Russians are traditionally ready to endure the hardships and hardships imposed on them with cruel rulers, in return for the pleasure of seeing how boyar heads roll from the frontal place. The main internal enemy for the “deepest people” is not liberals and opposition, but their own presumptuous bosses ...

The goal of Russia-1 is the stability of the system, Russia-2 dreams of the transition to European political and legal standards, and Russia-3, first of all, is concerned about the problem of social justice, which the presumptuous elite rudely violates. "