Economic expectations in Russia are divided according to a recently released poll by the All-Russian Public Opinion Research Center, or VTsIOM.

And although, according to the poll, more than a third of Russians, at 36 percent, expect a new wave of the crisis, 29 percent think that there is nothing to worry about and 35 percent do not know.

Out of those who expect a second wave of the crisis, 14 percent think it will happen in 2012, 8 percent do not know, and 9 percent think that it has already arrived.

However, 22 percent think that Russia has already recovered from the global financial crisis, 43 percent think it is still ongoing and 39 percent are sure that Russia is gradually recovering.

“It is not a memory yet, nor there is a feeling that we left the trenches,” director general of VTsIOM Valery Fyodorov told RIA Novosti.

Sociologists think that most of those with an optimistic view are medium-sized city residents, people with high income and aged between 18 and 44, and women.

Savings are on the up

Fyodorov said a third of Russians have savings (36 percent), up from 25 percent in July 2010.

Russians see property as the best investment (46 percent in October 2011 against 48 percent a year ago).

A quarter of Russians (24 percent) prefer to invest in gold (up from 17 percent last year).

Most Russians keep their savings in rubles (60 percent), 12 percent trust the euro and 9 percent save in US dollars.

The poll was conducted last weekend, and 1,600 people in 38 towns in 46 regions answered the questions.