Natalya Balayan

The paper presents the results of a sociological study carried out in the framework of the grant of the Russian Scientific Foundation № 15-18-00038 «Extremism and ethnic-social conflicts in the multiethnic region: forecasting and prevention». The paper deals with the basic concepts and forms of extremism and its prevention, preferences of young people in the field of information consumption. The sociological study was conducted by a standardized interview performed on a sample N = 2658.