Komi Republic

During the survey many respondents called the Republic of Komi  a typical "depressive" region, where the young people had no choice but to spend their free time going to disco or drink ing alcohol outdoors.
Deterioration of youth health mounted to the great scale, many of young people leave the region after they graduate from an education institution for more ‘progressive’ cities. Due to its distant location and depressed economic situation population is struggling for survival not putting much attention to their youth. At the same time, as FOCUS-MEDIA had worked in the region three years ago and maintain close contacts with the local partner organisations, local civil society organisations and regional government are eager to develop youth healthy life style programmes and are looking for support from outside to establish their own system of involving youth into voluntary actions