1 листопада об 11.00 в інформаційному агентстві «Інтерфакс» відбулась прес-конференція за результатами опитування громадської думки, проведеного 28 вересня -16 жовтня 2018 року спільно Центром «Соціальний моніторинг», Українським інститутом соціальних досліджень імені О.Яременка, Київським міжнародним інститутом соціології та Соціологічною групою «Рейтинг». Опитування охопило всю територію країни (за винятком тимчасово окупованих територій Луганської та Донецької областей, АР Крим). Вибіркова сукупність репрезентативна за віком (населення від 18 років і старші), статтю, типом населеного пункту та регіоном. Всього опитано 13684 респонденти. Стандартні відхилення при достовірних 95 відсотках не перевищують 0,85%. Рівень кооперації респондентів становить 60%. Метод отримання інформації: індивідуальне інтерв’ю за місцем проживання респондента „віч-на-віч”.

In September 2018, during the KIIS survey, respondents were asked to answer a few questions about the state's information policy. In February 2018, the same questions were studied in a survey conducted by KIIS at the request of the NGO "Detector Media" "Countering Russian propaganda and media literacy" (with a full report from this study, see the link below: https://detector.media/doc/images/news/archive/2016/136017/DM_KMIS_ukr__WEB-2.pdf).

In September, 35% of respondents believed that there was an attack on freedom of speech in Ukraine (this percentage slightly increased since February), 30% - held the opposite view that there are too many pro-Kremlin propaganda media in Ukraine, and that the state and society react weakly (earlier was 33%). Note that a large proportion of respondents had difficulty defining their position (about 35% could not answer or refused to answer).

The number of the Ukrainians who hold positive attitude to Russia increased a bit since February 2018 (even though it is not statistically significant) and now constitutes 48% (it was 45%). In Russia, the number of positively disposed to Ukraine people has not changed and still is 33%. However, the attitude of the Ukrainian population toward Russia has been remaining better than the attitude of Russia's population towards Ukraine since 2008 (when we started the monitoring process).

The highest level of Ukrainians' trust in news releases on such channels as 1 + 1, ICTV, STB, Ukraine and local TV channels (33-40%). If we look at the balance of trust and distrust, then the first are the same channels, but Ukraine gives way to the local channel due to a higher level of distrust. For almost all channels, the balance is positive or different from zero within the error margin. 
The lowest balance of trust in news releases on channels 5, Espresso, Direct and NewsOne, the number of those who trust is roughly equal to those who do not trust.

- The lowest level of ethnic prejudices in Ukraine is to Ukrainians, Belarusians and Russians, the highest - to the Chinese, Africans, Arabs and especially high level of prejudice to the Roma.

- From 1994 to 2007, the level of xenophobia in Ukraine increased (in 2007 it was the highest over the entire period of observation), decreased slightly from 2008 to 2013, slightly increased after the annexation of the Crimea and the war on the Donbas from 2014 to 2018 and returned to the level of 2011 year

- Xenophobia is most influenced by factors such as education (the higher education - the lower the level of xenophobia), type of settlement (the level of xenophobia is higher in villiage than in the city), region of residence, financial status (the higher the level of well-being the lower the level xenophobia) and age (with age, the level of xenophobia increases).