Digital protest activity in provincial cities of modern Russia

Digital protest in Russian provincial cities is fundamentally different from such protest activity of metropolitan cities. The typical forms of digital political protest activity in metropolitan cities is oppositional political activity, while in the provincial cities the most popular topics on social networks are: solving hobbies-related issues, environmental issues, local socio-economic problems, such as the problems of defrauded equity holders etc. Despite the apparent interest in the elections, opposition parties and movements, residents of the Russian provincial cities do not trust the major popular leaders of the political opposition in large cities and metropolitan areas. This testifies to the split of Russia into a country of metropolitan cities and a country of provincial ones, different value systems of provincial and capital Russia, which may negatively affect the development of the political situation in the future.