News

18

april

2016

Attitude of the population of Kirovohrad toward the renaming of the city: April, 2016

Main results: almost whole population of the city knows about the urge to rename the city. Vast majority of them do not support this initiative. Amongst the possible variants of the city name most people vote for “Kirovohrad”. If there were no such option as “Kirovohrad” in the list of variants, most citizens (55%) would vote for “Yelysavetgrad”. Option “Kropyvnytskyi” would be chose by 8%.

30

march

2016

Is automobile a luxury?

“Automobile is not a luxury, it is a means of transport”, - this quote of Ostap Bender is still actual. However, in modern Ukraine the availability of such means of transport as automobile is a distant dream for many Ukrainians.

The results showed that vast majority of households in Ukraine does not has cars – 74%. Only a quarter of all respondents appeared to be owners of automobile (24.5%), almost 96% of them have only one car

16

march

2016

Book “The world of Volodymyr Yadov” released

Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Yadov (1929 – 2015) was an outstanding scientist, one of the founders of Soviet sociology, a person who felt compassion for Ukraine and made a great contribution to the formation and development of Ukrainian sociology. Volodymyr Yadov was awarded the medal of Kistyakivskyi Sociological association of Ukraine.

The book about his life and work written by American sociologist B. Doctorov has been published.

16

march

2016

Socio-political situation in Ukraine: February – March, 2016

Main resukts: 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.

4

march

2016

Attitude toward Stalin

About quarter of adult population of Ukraine think Stalin was a great leader, 44% do not think so. Indifferent attitude towards Stalin is the most common (26%) amongst the Ukrainians, at the same time 17% treat him with disgust and hatred, slightly smaller percentage – with respect (13%), and with hostility and irritation (13%). Opinion that Stalin was a “wise leader” is supported by 28% of the population, while 70% agree that “Stalin is cruel, inhuman tyrant, guilty of the extermination of millions of innocent people”. Almost three quarters of the population say that they would NOT like to live and work with such leader of state as Stalin.