this follows from a request from the center for research and development of civil society of the higher school of economics. according to this study, 44% of the country's inhabitants this year. help those in need at least once experts note that in this unprecedented in terms of the scale of changes and the number of challenges in the year of volunteering, more than 21 million volunteers have become a real new trend in russia today. this is over 15% of the total population of the country, vladimir putin said this at the forum we are together, which took place last december, the forum dedicated to volunteering became international in 2 years, this time it gathered about 10,000 volunteers from all regions of russia and 45 countries. size due to the fact that this initiative was supported from below the state gave impetus to development. and we see what really happens every year, and there are more and more volunteers and the most difficult periods, and the coronavirus, fires , floods, a special military operation volunteers are the first to come to the rescue, this happened this year, when, uh, a special mili