Authority Changes Constitution and Regions Answer: What Search Queries Show

Amendments to the Russian Constitution were proposed in January and adopted in July 2020. In this paper we study reactions of large Russian regions to these amendments using search queries to Internet as independent source of information. We compare Federal districts using separately negative and positive queries related both to amendedments and to authoritities in order to explain their joint dynamics. For the possibility of such a comparison, we indicated procedures of normalization and scaling. The proposed technology is supposed to be useful for those dealing with the analysis of moods in regions related to actions of the Central authority and causing opposite opinions of population.