IRINA YULIEVA: ‘COUNTRY’
60 percent of Russian population resides in small towns, urban settlements and villages. The conditions are very different from those of the big cities - unemployment, lack of education, greater difficulties in social and communal area. All of that makes people to move into bigger cities.
While urbanization process is growing in Russia, most of the population is not involved. It’s especially hard for young people and the younger generation of the country.
Welfare aspirations not always lead to success. Children are full of dreams and illusions about their future. Then they get older, try to get an education and to find a proper job in more populated places. But few succeed, and as they themselves admit, the older they become, the less faith they have in themselves and their forces.