Press releases

Support for the parliament’s decision to hold a new election for the Mayor of Kyiv declined over the course of a month from 52% to 39%. At the same time, 47% of respondents consider Yuliia Tymoshenko’s push for calling early elections in the capital to have been a mistake. As a result, 39% of respondents said they were ready to vote for Leonid Chernovetskyi, 15% for his closest challenger Vitalii Klychko, and 12% for Oleksandr Turchynov.

It is noteworthy that half of respondents in Lviv are categorical opponents of abortions, while only one in five supports them.

44% of respondents in Lviv think that Lviv will manage to get ready for the Euro 2012 Championship. At the same time, in October 2007 almost twice as many respondents — 81% — believed that Euro 2012 matches would take place. Moreover, according to a relative majority of Lviv residents surveyed, their city is the one best able to host the Euro 2012 Championship.

Most Ukrainians described the Bucharest NATO Summit as a defeat for Ukraine. One third assessed the results of the summit as a victory for Ukraine in its продвиження toward the Alliance. About 40% of respondents named Ukrainians’ negative attitude toward NATO membership as the main reason for Ukraine not being granted a MAP.

• 18% of residents of the city of Lviv fully approve of the dismissal of P. Oliinyk, which is one and a half times higher than in Lviv Oblast overall.
  At the same time, one third of residents of the oblast are indifferent to the governor’s dismissal, and another 20% have not made up their minds.
• About 20% of respondents both in Lviv city and in the oblast as a whole positively assessed the appointment of M. Kmit as Acting Governor, while about 10% evaluated it negatively. The rest of the respondents either could not answer or said they were indifferent.

Almost two thirds of respondents said that they follow political news. At the same time, only 28% of those surveyed understand what is actually happening in politics. Lack of understanding of political developments is most widespread in the Center (72%) and in Donbas (77%).

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Half of Ukrainians support Ukraine’s accession to the WTO, while one quarter of respondents do not support joining the WTO. The main positive expectations associated with WTO accession mentioned by respondents were an inflow of foreign investment into the country and a reduction in unemployment. At the same time, in most cases respondents fear that domestic producers would turn out to be uncompetitive.

Twice as few respondents assess the government’s performance negatively. The greatest expectations from the new government are associated with stopping inflation and returning the devalued savings held in Oshchadbank.