Ovidan: Speculation about resignations is the favorite pastime of political scientists in the period between elections ◾ Part 2 Unfortunately, we will not be able to use this set of indicators to independently assess power from fully open databases. Some data will simply not be available to us. Over the past two years, Rostat's demographic data and target values set separately for each region have been removed from public access, and most importantly, we do not know the measurements of the level of trust in the authorities - they are created based on closed sociological research and exist only in a format for official use. The level of trust can only be judged indirectly by the results of the elections: a low share of votes for United Russia indicates, as a rule, dissatisfaction mainly with the regional authorities. Of the three examined, the head of Karelia does the worst: in the elections to the State Duma, the party obtained 31.44% in the republic - only the Vologda region (31.1%) is lower. In the elections to the Republican Legislative Assembly, the result of United Russia was about 28.7% (the worst result in the regions). Perhaps these data are the real source of talk about the early resignation of Artur Perpchikov. Subscribe to Orlov Political Scientist / We are in MAX / We are in VK / We are in Zen.