1. Social well-being of the central Russia region's population E. Kogay Doctor of Philosophy, professor Kursk State University, Russia

2. The social well-being includes the next components: - the degree of people's protection from dangers, - the degree of people's satisfaction with their life in whole, - the degree of social optimism.

3. THE PUBLIC INQUIRY 2007 – 40 populated localities; The sample's volume – 1128 people; 2009 – 51 populated localities; The sample's volume – 1000 people. The public inquiry was conducted in the form of one-hour interviews (62 questions) in the confidential and domiciliary atmosphere.

4. Protectability of the Kursk residents from social dangers (% from the number of interrogated people, 2007/2009) Kinds of dangers Protected likely protected difficult to say Unlikely protected Not protected at all The RF, 2006 Not protected Criminality 6,7/5,68,0/7,119,5/25,830,8/34,835,0/26,7 71 Poverty 7,9/5,312,7/10,225,1/25,125,8/33,028,5/26,4 68 Ecological threat 9,5/10,711,7/17,123,4/26,326,7/23,128,7/22,8 62 Functionary lawlessness 8,4/6,79,8/10,724,5/31,431,7/31,425,7/19,8 59 Law machinery lawlessness 10,8/7,912,9/12,727,7/32,527,7/29,020,7/17,9 52 Loneliness and neglect 19,6/18,719,1/19,325,3/24,318,9/21,017,1/16,7 44 Oppressions because of age and sex 36,7/38,521,5/24,920,7/20,913,4/10,47,6/5,3 26 Political persecutions 42,0/38,718,1/19,623,2/27,510,0/7,26,8/7,0 17 Race discrimination 54,4/53,519,3/22,214,7/15,77,4/4,84,1/3,8 13 Religious persecutions 57,4/55,417,4/20,914,7/14,76,2/4,74,6/4,3 10

5. Kursk Region Population Satisfaction with their life (% from the number of interrogated people, 2007/2009) Variants of answers CityVillageIn all The RF, 2006 Satisfied absolutely 10,6/11,611,0/9,010,7/10,49 Rather satisfied 41,7/41,335,5/40,439,0/41,745 Found difficulty in exact replying 15,3/12,517,6/20,216,3/15,517 Not quite satisfied 25,8/30,030,6/26,227,9/27,924 Dissatisfied absolutely 6,5/4,55,1/4,15,9/4,45 Refused to answer 0,2/0,20,2/00,2/0,15

6. Confidence of the Kursk Region Inhabitants in their future (% from the number of interrogated, 2007/2009) Variants of answers CityVillageIn allThe RF, 2006 Quite confident11/8,37,7/7,79,6/7,811 Rather confident than not confident 24,9/26,920,5/22,723,0/25,632 Can't say exactly 27,6/35,933,9/41,330,3/38,426 Rather not confident than confident 21,4/18,821,1/18,921,3/18,421 Not confident absolutely 14,3/9,416,8/8,715,4/9,19 Refused to answer 0,8/0,70,0/0,80,4/0,71

7. Distribution of the answers to the question: «How close or remote do you feel for the called group of people?» (% from the number of interrogated, 2009)

8. Distribution of the answers to the question of mutual understanding

9. Level of the Kursk Region Population Trust to the authority institutes from the number of interrogated, 2007/2009) Level of the Kursk Region Population Trust to the authority institutes (% from the number of interrogated, 2007/2009) CourtGover nor Labor unions Public prosecut or's office PoliceGovernm ent Party (regional departm ent) Parlame nt Mass media Fully trust 19,6/14,336,0/20,09,4/6,312,1/9,18,8/7,510,2/11,56,8/4,38,4/7,46,7/4,4 Likely trust 25,6/32,330,2/37,314,6/16,619,1/21,415,4/15,722,5/26,310,6/11,516,9/19,019,6/16,0 Difficult to say exactly 15,9/22,914,8/20,829,2/38,922,4/30,218,5/26,224,8/27,825,4/32,324,5/29,621,8/28,3 Trust not completely 19,1/19,79,6/12,318,5/18,022,8/25,426,7/28,420,8/20,622,3/26,922,1/23,825,8/29,2 Don’t trust absolutely 14,8/8,56,3/7,219,1/15,118,4/11,526,5/20,315,9/11,525,6/21,721,6/17,321,8/20,1 Don’t know 3,6/1,42,0/1,27,4/3,63,7/1,32,7/0,84,1/1,57,0/2,04,3/1,62,6/1,2 Refuse to reply 1,3/0,91,2/1,21,9/1,51,5/1,11,4/1,11,7/1,22,3/1,3 1,7/0,8

10. CONCLUSIONS The population of Kursk region has quite adapted to the happening social and economic changes and nowadays it relies more on itself and its potential, showing moderate optimism in estimating its prospects.

12. STUDENTS OF KURSK STATE UNIVERSITY

13. Thank you for attention!