Interest in AI companions in Russia is growing rapidly. In 2025, the number of users of such services doubled, and the average traffic quadrupled. Especially actively, people in the country communicate with virtual bots that help them cope with stress and anxiety. To understand how this works, science journalist and psychologist Denis Yakovlev created an understanding companion for himself using a neural network.

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The surge of interest in artificial intelligence in Russia is happening against a backdrop of intense stress: people barely had time to recover from the pandemic before new problems arose—war and the state’s brazen intrusion into private life. At the same time, psychological help remains expensive: from 2,000 rubles per session in the provinces and several times more in the capital. There are still few qualified specialists, and in small towns and villages, often none at all.

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