Quality of life, anxiety and protest activity in Russia 2020-2021

The article presents some modern approaches to assessing the quality of life of the population. The authors demonstrate advantages and disadvantages of both objective and subjective approaches to assessing the quality of life and demonstrate dependence between objective assessments of the quality of life of the population, the level of anxiety, preoccupation with problems and uncertainty about the future, as well as the growth of protest activity of the population. They show that in 2020-2021, the population's assessment of the quality of life, anxiety, as well as the level of protest activity in Russian cities were determined by the dynamics of the incidence of coronavirus infection among the population, and to a lesser extent by measures implemented by federal and regional authorities to combat the disease. Accordingly, overcoming the coronavirus infection, the removal of anti-COVID restrictions in the near future will make it possible to increase the population's assessment of the quality of their own lives, as well as to reduce the level of anxiety and protest activity.