Respondents were provided with the following question:

Federation Council of Russia allowed the President of Russia Vladimir Putin to bring the troops on the territory of Ukraine. What do you think about this decision?

83% of Ukrainians condemn the decision (77% fully condemn and 6% rather condemn), 9% - approve the decision.

13 different lists of possible candidates for Presidency were suggested to respondents to explore their electoral intentions. All lists included the following political figures: A. Hrytsenko, V. Klytschko, V. Medvedchuk, P. Poroshenko, P. Symonenko, Yu. Tymoshenko, O. Tiahnybok. Besides, each of 13 lists contained one of the following political figures: S. Tihipko, O. Vilkyl, M. Dobkin, R. Akhmetov, N. Shufrych, M. Azarov, D. Tabachnyk, H. Herman, Yu. Boiko, R. Bohatyriova, V. Rybak, I. Akimova, O. Yefremov. Party affiliation of possible candidates for presidency was not indicated in the lists shown to the respondents.

KIIS gives hints to men what to present to women on March 8 for several years already. Besides, we are interested in the plans of men and we see that they listen to our hints.

According to the results of the poll, similarly to the last year, TOP-6 presents that women would like to receive are flowers, care and attention, romantic trip, jewelry, toilet water or perfume and cosmetics, romantic dinner.

In Ukraine, as well as in Russia  majority of respondents  wants both countries to be independent, but friendly  - with open borders, without visas and customs houses (in Ukraine – 68%, in Russia – 59%). In Ukraine  with numbers  have decreased  since November, 2013 by 5%, in Russia – increased  by 4%.

The main reason for the majority of people to participate in protests is outrage with the corrupted regime of Yanukovych (the highest level in the West – 68%, the lowest on the East – 20%).

Almost a third of respondents (30%) also indicate three other reasons such as the West influence, that aims to include Ukraine in its sphere of political interests (people’s thoughts differ by regions significantly: 57% and 44% believe in that in the East and in the South, respectively while only 17% and 5% think in such a way in the Centre and in the West).