The article describes the portrait of the protest movement on the example of the city and region, with a view to determining the level of protest activity and its origins. This allows to consider the problem of the modern youth extremism more widely from the point of view of civil activity and the unwillingness of political structures to direct the activities in the correct direction, as a consequence of the emergence of more frustration, alienation and aggression of the youth, care in deviant forms of behaviour.
