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4

march

2018

Interview of V.I.Paniotto on the results of the KIIS study on decentralization

Dr.Vladimir Paniotto, the Director General of KIIS, gave an interview to UA.TV about the results of the KIIS study on Ukraine's assessment of decentralization and local government reform.

20

february

2018

Stressful situations in the lives of the Ukrainians, 2017

The changes in the situation with stress in the lives of Ukrainians happened over the year is the subject of this press release.

According to a recent KIIS study, 53% of those polled experienced some sort of stressful situation in 2017. Compared to 2016, their number has decreased by 5 percentage points (in 2016 it was 58%). Compared to 2016, the number of those who survived the illness of relatives, death of relatives and lost faith in people has decreased.

The number of those who did not experience any stressful situation increased by 5 percentage points (it was 37% in 2016, it was 42% in 2017).

13

february

2018

Round Table “Tobacco consumption in Ukraine: changes within last seven years”. Press-release

On February 14, 2017 the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office in Europe, WHO Country Office in Ukraine, Kiev International Institute of Sociology and the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine held a round table devoted to the second Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS) conducted in Ukraine in 2017.

13

february

2018

Readiness of the Ukrainians to participate in social protest actions, December 2017

According to the data of polls conducted by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology, 40% of the adult population of Ukraine was ready to participate in the protest actions in December 2017. Compared to the previous years, the level of readiness to participate in social protest initially increased from 43% in December 2014 to 49% in December 2016. and then declined to 40% in December 2017. At the same time, the proportion of those who argue that they are not ready to take part in any mass protests increased from 46% in 2016 to 53% in 2017.

12

february

2018

Miroslav Volodymyrovych Popovich passed away

On February 10, 2018 a prominent philosopher Myroslav Popovich has passed away. He was a wonderful person, a scientific and moral authority for a lot of us. Few people know that he enhanced the development of sociological science in Ukraine; for some time he led the first sociological department at the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine - the department of methodology and techniques of social research at the Institute of Philosophy.