The main reason for the majority of people to participate in protests is outrage with the corrupted regime of Yanukovych (the highest level in the West – 68%, the lowest on the East – 20%).

Almost a third of respondents (30%) also indicate three other reasons such as the West influence, that aims to include Ukraine in its sphere of political interests (people’s thoughts differ by regions significantly: 57% and 44% believe in that in the East and in the South, respectively while only 17% and 5% think in such a way in the Centre and in the West).

The results of conjoint nationwide sociological survey of Kiev International Institute of Sociology and Center for Social and Marketing Research “SOCIS”

Thoughts of the Ukrainians about protests were divided almost equally. Number of respondents who supports the protest intentions of citizens is almost 47% (26.8% - fully support, 20.9% - rather support). Do not support the protests - 46% (31.3% - do not support, 14.8% - rather not).

Since the survey on Maidan camp have passed one and a half months. During this time there were tough opposition protesters and security forces - beatings, repression, disappearances, and after the adoption of the infamous law of 16 January - real bloody fighting in Hrushevskoho Street and the first casualties. Maidan has been changed outside – barricades were built, stiffened in constant expectation of attack became more closed. Maidan camp was turned into a Maidan-Sich.

What changes have taken place with a population of Maidan? How has changed the social and demographic structure? Have the views and requirements changed of this much more militarized people? This we have tried to figure out in our survey.

On the end of 2013, mobile communication in Ukraine has significantly supplanted the stationary connection: 88% of the population of Ukraine are mobile connection users, and only 43% are stationary connection users.

The number of mobile phone users in Ukraine increased in 2013, especially in rural areas, and the number of stationary phones users has reduced.

Today, 88.0% of the population have mobile phones, of which 50.8% have only a personal mobile phone, and 37.2% are owners of both home and mobile phones; only stationary phones are used by 6.1%, and every seventeenth respondent (5.9%) has no mobile phone.

Questions about the attitude of the population of Ukraine to the results of opinion polls was asked in 2002, 2004, 2009 and 2012. In the survey in November 2013, respondents also expressed their views about the opinion polls.

Level of confidence in the results of opinion polls held by organizations, which conduct surveys and publish their results for a long time already, among the population of Ukraine for 11 years first significantly increased from 36% in 2002 to 47% in 2004, and then remained stable at approximately the same level of fluctuations in within sampling error