During the round table "Humanitarian map of Donbass: the needs of local residents and displaced persons" Natalia Kharchenko, Executive Director of the Kyiv international Institute of sociology (KIIS), asserted the following "89% of the population of the occupied territories of Donbass don’t want to leave their place of residence, only 6% of respondents would like to leave it but they can't due to some circumstances".

The roundtable was held March 30 at the hotel "Opera".

In case of elections, tree parliamentary parties (Petro Poroshenko Bloc, Samopomich and Batkivschyna) could get the most increase, while “Narodnyi front” is at the biggest risk of losing support.

Petro Poroshenko, Yulia Tymoshenko and Andriy Sadovyi are the leaders of presidential rating.

If to compare with the previous parliamentary election, Batkivschyna nearly doubled their support, and Samopomich raised popularity by one third.

People in Ukraine generally have negative expectations for the next twelve month, but are cautiously optimistic for a long term period.

It is impossible to conduct counterpropaganda without estimation of its effectiveness. The efficiency of counterpropaganda can be measured as the reduction of Russian propaganda efficiency per unit of expenses. That is why the index of Russian propaganda efficiency is needed.

Index of Russian propaganda efficiency, which we offer, can become a tool for evaluation of Ukraine’s counterpropaganda measures in different regions and among different social groups.

As on February 2015, the majority of Ukrainians prefer course towards European integration to joining the Russian-led Customs Union (consisting of Russia, Belarus and. Kazakhstan). Based on results of public opinion survey, conducted by KIIS, in February2015 47.2% say that Ukraine should join EU, while 12.3% prefer Ukraine's membership of the Customs Union.

March 8 published an article in the American edition of "USA TODAY" according to a February poll of KIIS: "Poll: Ukrainians support neutrality, disagree on war" by Oren Dorell.