16:19 29.01.2018

Oligarchs, authorities hamper Ukraine's development – survey

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Oligarchs, authorities hamper Ukraine's development – survey

One in four Ukrainian citizens do not believe that Ukraine as an independent state will get to its feet in the foreseeable future, and 40% hope the country will overcome hardships in the next 10-15 years, sociologists say.

An analytical material in Ukraine's Mirror Weekly (ZN.UA) published on Saturday, January 27, which is devoted to the problem of emigration from Ukraine, based on the ZN.UA questionnaire, notes: "Twenty-five percent of respondents, when asked to answer the question 'Do you believe that Ukraine as an independent state will get to its feet?' said that they deny the probability of such a scenario in the foreseeable future. This is the second most popular answer. The percentage of those who expect irreversible positive changes in the next 10-15 years is higher - 40.4%. The smallest percentage – 16.1% - is optimists who are confident that all will get better in five years."

"Those who do not believe in the speedy consistency of Ukraine as a state are 30% of those who are ready to leave the country, 64% of those who are ready to leave Ukraine forever, 57% of those who are ready to vote for money, 42% of those who do not vote in elections without seeing this makes any sense, and 31% of those who visit polling stations from time to time," the newspaper notes.

Respondents also named no more than three main factors hampering Ukraine's development. Some 42.4% of respondents named oligarchs as the main obstacle to the development of the country, 32.9% the Verkhovna Rada, 26.3% the president, 26.3% the government, and 16% officials.

Russia is considered an obstacle to Ukraine's development by 14.5%, a pro-Russian "fifth column" by 12%, parties by 6.5%, Ukrainian nationalists by 5.3%, courts by 4.5%, and Jews by 3.6%.

The fact that the development of the country is primarily impeded by voters is considered by only 3.2%. Almost the same number (3%) believes that the main obstacle to Ukraine's development is the United States.

At the same time, 12.5% found it difficult to answer, and 1.6% provided other reasons.

The questionnaire also indicates that almost 90% of the population sees no need for public activity or even does not understand what is at stake. Almost 32% of Ukrainians want to live in a more comfortable country, 45% of respondents are ready to go abroad in order to get more money, and 13% are often ready to leave their parents at home so as to save their children abroad.

Almost one in ten respondents does not feel safe in Ukraine, and almost 9% do not believe in the future of the country. Only 5.6% of those who stated their readiness to leave the country want to do this because of corruption that has engulfed Ukraine (at the same time, 5% of Ukrainians give bribes often, 37% chose the answer "sometimes," 53% said they never did it, and another 5% found it difficult to qualify their actions).

The poll showed that 26% plan to wait abroad until Ukraine goes through hard times, and 14% are ready to leave the country – they are categorical and are not afraid of the word "forever." Some 12% have another goal – they want to earn money and start their own business in their home country, whereas 9.3% would like to receive new knowledge and experience and then return to Ukraine. Only 3% want to leave the country until the war is over.

Some 29.1% of Ukraine's population thought about leaving the country. At the same time, 6.3% are ready to do this and take certain steps, 10.8% are basically ready, but so far nothing has been done, and 20% are not yet ready, but are waiting for favorable circumstances. These are the results of a study conducted by Kyiv International Institute of Sociology at ZN.UA's request.

At the same time, 56.9% of Ukrainians are not ready to leave Ukraine under any circumstances, and 63.6% did not even think of it.

When asked about the attitude towards labor migration to Russia, 41.9% said that work in Russia is an acceptable thing if there are no earnings at home. Another 21.2% chose the "philosophical" version of the answer: "it does not matter where to earn money." At the same time, 76.1% of respondents in the south and 74.5% in the east of Ukraine note the acceptability of labor migration to Russia. Work in Russia is also supported by 60% of respondents living in the central regions of the country and 49.4% of respondents in the western regions of Ukraine.

Of those who decided on their attitude towards Ukrainian guest workers in Russia (14.8% found it difficult to answer this question), the possibility of working in Russia is admitted by 74% of respondents living in the center, and 58.6% of respondents in the west.

According to the ZN.UA questionnaire, the study was conducted by Kyiv International Institute of Sociology from November 21 to December 15, 2017. The field stage lasted from December 1 to December 14, 2017. The survey was conducted in 110 populated localities in all regions of Ukraine, except for the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. In Donetsk and Luhansk regions, the survey was conducted only in the territories controlled by Ukraine. A total of 2,039 questionnaires were collected during the field stage.

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