Oleh Ivanov, KIIS employee, PhD in Sociology, comments the results of KIIS survey about geo-political orientations of the population of Ukraine for “Hromadske radio”.

• The majority of the Ukrainians believes that government leads the state in wrong direction, and negatively evaluates the activities of the central authorities.

• Most of the residents believe that the conflict in the East of Ukraine should be resolved via international peace talks.

• The most popular option of foreign policy vector is membership in the European Union but now it is supported by less than a half of the population. Perspective of membership in the Customs union receives only 12% of support.

• NATO membership is supported by 44%, and 38% of the Ukrainians are against it.

From October through December 2015, the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology conducted a survey of members of the Ukrainian Parliament elected on October 26, 2014 at a pre-term parliamentary election. This eigth Parliament assumed its legal authority on November 27, 2014.

About two-thirds of the population of Ukraine have negative attitude to the appointment of Y.Lutsenko as a General Prosecutor.

If elections of the President of Ukraine had been held in the second half of May, Y.Tymoshenko would have received the majority of voices.

On May 19 in the concert-hall “FreeDom” the thirteenth ceremony of awarding the winners of the annual contest of consumer preferences and expert advice “Favoryty Uspikhu – 2015” (Favorites of Success).