It is especially hard for young people raising children and for the elderly. Unemployment is growing. The leader of a movement of poor people, Svetlana Karpina, cited examples of young doctors and nurses going on hunger strikes, their salaries being 300-400 rubles a month at a time when the cheapest salami cost 20,000 rubles a kilogram. It is the same for those working in education. Nowhere to work and nowhere to go, if they want to move away.
Conditions are better in the capital, yet problems abound.
The social problems particularly affect women. Some women journalists have formed a group, and in the media they are reporting on all the themes and issues that trouble our society. They write not only about the painful things, but about how to live in our difficult time and about the good and encouraging experiences of all who strive to improve the economic, political and social situation in the republic.