Viktor Belyayev of the independent Belarusian portal, ThinkTanks.by, has assembled the results of five new polls from Ukraine which show that the Ukrainian people overwhelmingly support their army and government and remain confident of...
According to the survey conducted by the Sociological Group “Rating” on March 8-9, 91% of the respondents feel hope when thinking about the situation in Ukraine. Only 6% feel hopeless. This is true for all the regions. 57% of...
Rating Sociological Group in Ukraine conducted a national poll on March 1, 2022, which was the sixth day of the all-out Russo-Ukrainian War that started in 2014 after Putin’s occupation of Crimea. The poll included a sample of 1,200...
Russians are against war, something they understand as a major war involving the West; but with regard to Moscow’s use of military force against their neighbors as now against Ukraine, although almost four out of ten fear that...
Given Vladimir Putin’s obsession with the Soviet Union whose demise he regularly calls “the greatest geopolitical disaster” of the 20th century, one might assume that most Russians would remember more about it than...
Now, a poll of 5,000 Ukrainians by the Ukrainian Institute of the Future and the New Image Marketing Group provides a more accurate measure of the real size of the two churches in Ukraine. The survey found that 72 percent of Ukrainians...
Preferences for Ukraine’s foreign policy direction Regarding Ukraine’s foreign policy, there is a tendency to consolidate around the pro-European idea among the youngest (16-24), even in south-eastern Ukraine where this trend...
In 2020, Europeans view Ukraine more positively than in 2015, although negative perceptions still prevail. Meanwhile, awareness of the war against Russia has dropped. In order to understand popular attitudes towards Ukraine, the New...
The new Ukrainian poling platform Gradus Research has conducted a comprehensive study of social stress during quarantine. Since May 2020, the company has been monitoring the stress level of Ukrainian citizens in the new realities on a...
The traditional 2020 sociological survey by Democratic Initiatives shows that 84.4% of Ukrainians would vote for Ukrainian independence on a referendum if it was held now. The survey has been conducted annually (since at least 2006) on the...
Putin’s goals and philosophy Sławomir Sierakowski: What is Putin’s ultimate goal in this war? Timothy Snyder: That’s no big secret: to destroy Ukraine as a state and exterminate Ukrainians as a nation. I’d...