The article summarizes the results of a sociological study of a multicolored palette of perceptions in the narrow sense of the world’s feelings of the population as influences of ideas expectations and hopes for the life of the regional community, considered through the prism of social changes A conclusion is drawn about the socio-psychological climate (optimism ) ideas about justice party and political preferences of society in Nizhny Novgorod and the Nizhny Novgorod region in the first half of 2020. The materials continue the series of studies 2015 – 2016 and are based on data from the Privolzhsky branch of the FCTIS RAS and the Institute of Social Management Problems Leniya of Nizhny Novgorod.