A prominent Soviet sociologist and one of the founders of Soviet sociology Vladimir Yadov died on the 2^nd of July. We express our deepest condolences to relatives and friends.

Here are the warm words and memories of colleagues.

June 23 the results of the next wave of the KIIS study commissioned by "Dopomogemo TV" on the needs of the residents of Donbass "Humanitarian card of Donbass" were presented.

The presentation was attended by the general director of KIIS V.Paniotto and fellow KIIS D.Pirogova.

General Director of KIIS Vladimir Paniotto took part in the X-th Global Security Forum in Bratislava (GLOBSEC Bratislava Global Security Forum).

GLOBSEC has become the largest and most innovative conference of its kind in Central Europe. Each year an influential community of 800 guests from more than 60 countries.

This year's topics was the political situation and armed conflict in Ukraine.

According to the results of the survey conducted at the end of May 2015, the absolute majority of the Ukrainian population don’t support idea that Ukraine should choose joining the Customs Union with Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan: If the referendum concerning the joining of Ukraine the Customs Union had taken place at the end of May 2015, 58,8% would have voted against the joining, and 18,6% for the joining. The rest 24,7% wouldn't have decided or wouldn’t have taken part in the voting.