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april

2016

Attitude of the Ukrainians toward national holidays

The research showed that, in general, the Ukrainians treat holidays with love and respect, only 2% of respondents do not treat any of the holidays as important and favorite.

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%.

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

march

2016

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

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.
Majority of the population think that parliament was wrong when decided not to dismiss the government on February 16. Most of the Ukrainians believe that forming new government with a new Prime Minister is a way out of political crisis.
Most residents of Ukraine think that conflict on the East of Ukraine should be solved through peaceful international negotiations.

march

2016

Is there a war going on between Russia and Ukraine?

Comparison of views of the Ukrainians and the Russians on armed conflict in Donbas

TherearebigdifferencesinhowtheUkrainiansandhowtheRussiansseetheroleofRussiain what has been going on in Ukraine during the last two years. Opinion that there is a war between Russia and Ukraine is shared by 63% of the Ukrainians and 25% of the Russians. Also 65% of the Ukrainians and 27% of the Russians think there are Russian troops on the territory of Ukraine. While 83% of the Russians approve the accession of Crimea to Russia, only 10% of the Ukrainians share this view.