GSEM UrFU Research Results Presented in Moscow

00:10, March 11, 2020

GSEM UrFU Professor presented the results of the research project to experts from Expert Institute for Social Research and Russian Foundation for Basic Research

Prof. Dr. Yana Didkovskaya, head of one of the best projects supported by RFBR and Expert Institute for Social Research (EISR) in 2019, was invited to present a report on the research findings at a round table discussion organised in Moscow by the Russian Presidential Executive Office in cooperation with EISR and RFBR. The event took place on February 28th, moderated by the First Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office Sergey Kirienko.

At the round table, project leaders told about their research findings that encompass a variety of different topics: from government policies and trends in Russian political development to new communication technologies in the contemporary society and transformation of political culture. Professor Yana Didkovskaya presented the findings of the project «The youth as a political subject – social well-being and strategies of political career strategies in the context of citizen activism» that involved several GSEM researchers and students: Senior Lecturer Dmitry Trynov, Associate Professor Dmitry Rudenkin, Master students Anna Koptyaeva and Evgeny Popov. In her presentation, Prof. Didkovskaya noted dominating pessimistic views among politically active young people in the Urals, as the research indicated.

«This is one of the reasons that young people choose an “activist and protest” strategy of starting a political life: refusal to use available channels of starting a political career and opting for a confrontation with the authorities. This strategy is the most popular among young people today because there are very few ways to start a political career otherwise, limited to either pro-government organisations or non-legitimate opposition groups».

The First Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office Sergey Kirienko thanked all the event participants for their research results, marked their high quality and noted the importance not only for social and political sciences development, but also for the practice of managing social and political processes in Russia nowadays.