“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

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.

For a couple of years KIIS has been helping men to choose presents for women for March 8^th. Moreover we are asking men about their plans and find out that they are using our advices.

According to the results of the poll, top 6 presents women want to receive are flowers, care and attention, jewelry, romantic journey, money, toilet water or perfume, and cosmetics.

Kiev International Institute of Sociology at the request of the Ukrainian Center for Tobacco Control and NGO Advocacy Center LIFE at December 2015 has performed a nationwide survey (omnibus) with questions about smoking, smoking cessation, smoking intensity, smoking in public places and at workplaces and perception of tobacco products’ promotion (see Annex A to review the list of questions included in the survey in 2015). The most recent similar surveys were conducted by KIIS in February 2013 and October 2014.

According to the latest KIIS survey 64% of participants have been going through some stressful situation in the last year. This percentage is not much bigger than it was in 2014 (62%) but it has grown significantly comparing to 2013 (49%). Also growth was observed in the amount of people who were through the serious illness of a significant other (from 9,9% in 2014 to 14,3% in 2015), and people who suffered serious illness and had surgery (from 7,2% in 2014 to 11,3% in 2015). Amount of those people who were in situations of shelling and bombing decreased in 2015 (from 7% in 2014 to 6%) although difference is not very significant.