The biggest source of fear for Russians in the third quarter of 2023 was undoubtedly drones. The newspaper writes about this “Kommersant” referring to the report in “National Anxiety Index. “KROS”.
KROS ranks Russians’ concerns based on analysis of media reports (“media index”) as well as posts and comments on social networks (“social media index”). The total index shows the scale of the “information wave” of a particular topic, and the “survival” index shows how much it excites ordinary Internet users (“the ratio of the “social media index” to the “media index”).
The total anxiety index associated with drone strikes in July-September was 811.1 mediajung (a unit of anxiety used by researchers). This is almost three times more than the second largest fear caused by the fall of the ruble (273.2 media units), and also almost three times more than the index of all other fears recorded by experts (713.7 media units).
In the fourth and further rows are “Difficulties in traveling to Europe”, “Situation in civil aviation”, “Loss of position in space”, “Electric scooter”, “Rumors of mobilization”, “Increase in taxi prices”, “Loss of position in space” . Hollywood movies at the box office (“Barbie”, “Oppenheimer”.
Fear of drones has replaced fear of broader sabotage. dominant in the second quarter. Russian concern about sabotage activities in Russia has doubled in the second quarter of 2023.
Previously Russian air defense captured Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in the Kurchatov region, located next to the Kursk nuclear power plant.