Volodymyr I. Paniotto, General Director of KIIS, is commenting the results of public opinion polls: “Since 2005 there was a significant decrease in the percentage of Russians with a positive attitude towards Ukraine. At the same time in Ukraine the level of positive attitudes towards Russia was permanently about 90% - even the war in Georgia did not affect it”.

The mutual attitude got worse over the past three months. However, the attitude of Ukrainians to Russia is still more positive than the attitude of Russians to Ukraine. Comparing to the May survey the amount of positively minded Ukrainians fell slightly (from 52% in May to 48%  in September). The proportion of negatively minded Ukrainians increased also slightly (from 38% to 41%).

Якби вибори до Верховної Ради України за мажоритарною системою відбувалися наприкінці вересня, то з усіх жителів округу віком від 18 років серед запропонованого списку кандидатів 26,5%  проголосували б за кандидата від партії «Блок Петра Порошенка» Є. Рибчинського, 6,9% – за кандидата від Всеукраїнського об’єднання «Батьківщина» С. Терьохіна...

If the elections to Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine took place in the penult week of September, the population of Ukraine aged 18 and above would vote for the following parties 18,3% “Block of Petro Poroshenko” (Y. Lucenko); 4,8%  Radical party of O. Lyashko; 3,6%  "Batkivshchyna"  (Y. Tymoshenko); 3,2% “Gromadyanska pozitsiya” (A.Grytsenko); 2,7% “Narodnyi front” (A. Yatsenyuk);

In parliamentary elections are going to take 65% of the population - 12% less than it was before the election of 2012. There are significant regional differences in the willingness of voters go to the polls. The largest percentage of those who agreed to participate in the voting - in the West (88%) and Central (76%) regions, significantly less willingness to participate in the elections - in the South (57%) and East (59%) regions, and Donbas volunteered to participate in the elections only 23.5% of the inhabitants.