For the majority of respondents, 2023 turned out to be the same as the previous one. The respondents found the year “more difficult for the country” than for them personally.  Two thirds of the respondents rated 2023 as a whole as “average”, one in five – as “good”. At the same time, two thirds called the year “successful for them personally”; this proportion has been increasing for three years.

For 54% of Russians, the outgoing year 2023 turned out to be the same as the previous one. For every third respondent, the year turned out to be more difficult than 2022, the share of such respondents decreased by 20 percentage points. 2023 was easier for 12% of respondents. 2023 became more difficult than the previous year, primarily for those who barely have enough to eat (53%).

The assessment of the outgoing year 2023 for the country has also improved compared to 2022. The share of Russians who believe that the past year has been more difficult for Russia has decreased. 15% of respondents believe that 2023 turned out to be easier for the country than the previous one (in 2022 – 4%). The year 2023 was the same as the previous one for 37% of respondents. Moscow residents are less likely than others to say that the year has become more difficult than the previous one.

Two thirds of respondents (65%) rated the outgoing year as “average”, another 14% of respondents called it bad, over the past year the share of such responses decreased by 16%; 20% called 2023 a good year.

2023 was more often rated as bad and very bad by respondents who barely have enough to eat (27%), who believe that the country is moving on the wrong path (29%).

Two thirds of Russians (64%) called the outgoing year a good one for themselves, after the outbreak of the pandemic, their number is growing every year. The past year 2023 was unsuccessful for every fourth Russian.