Main results:

• All-Ukrainian union “Batkivshchyna” is a leader of party ranking in the elections to Verkhovna Rada. It is followed by the parties “Opozytsiinyi block”, “Block Petra Poroshenka”, “Samopomich”, and Radical party.

• Y.Tymoshenko and P. Poroshenko are the leaders in the Presidential rating. In case of the second round Y.Tymoshenko would receive more votes than P.Poroshenko.

• Majority of the population think the government leads Ukraine in wrong direction. Also the majority of the population think that socio-economical situation in Ukraine has become worse over the last two years. People blame it mostly on the Prime Minister and the President.

• Majority of the population think that parliament was wrong when decided not to dismiss the government on February 16. Most of the Ukrainians believe that forming new government with a new Prime Minister is a way out of political crisis.

• Most residents of Ukraine think that conflict on the East of Ukraine should be solved through peaceful international negotiations.

In a period of February 23 – March 8, 2016 Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS) has conducted all-Ukrainian public opinion poll on the client`s request. Data were collected from 2039 respondents living in 110 settlements in all regions of Ukraine (except the AR of Crimea) through personal interviews. Sample is stochastic, four-staged with quota selection on the last stage, and representative for the population of Ukraine aged 18 and above.

In Luhansk and Donetsk regions survey was conducted only on the territories controlled by Ukraine.

The statistical sample error (with probability of 0.95 and design–effect of 1.5) does not exceed: 3.3% for indicators close to 50%, 2.8% – for indicators close to 25%, 2.0% – for indicators close to 10%, 1.4% – for indicators close to 5%.

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