YOUTH AND THE RUSSIAN ARMY: WILL THERE BE A POSITIVE VECTOR IN INTERACTION?

Abstract

. Prestige of military service is directly connected with the trust of citizens to this institution, willingly pass military service, and, as a result, stand up for the defense of their homeland. The article summarizes the results of a sociological study of the attitude of young Kostroma to the Russian army, presents data from expert interviews in the Belgorod region. In the course of interpreting the obtained research results, the ratio of different target audiences (boys and girls) to military service in the Russian army was revealed. 13.22% rated "excellent" the modern Russian army, 46.38% "good", 33.67% rated "satisfactory", and only 6.73% - "not satisfactory". 38.4% would have evaded military service, if they had such an opportunity, and would have spent that time on work or study. Two-thirds of the respondents (66.83%) called the main reason for evading military service in the Russian army "hazing", and 70% of those surveyed have surrounded by people who evade military service. The emerging posi­ tive dynamics in the public opinion of young people about the service in the army is extremely unstable, it is too early to talk about changing the image of military service. The opinion of the experts confirmed the findings, highlighting the existence of a sub­ ject-object approach to conscripts, the reluctance to proceed to a systematic resolution of the problem of the image of the Russian army.