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Ukrainians believe that President Viktor Yanukovych is the politician of 2012, according to a poll conducted by the Democratic Initiatives Foundation and the sociological service of the Razumkov Center from December 21 to December 24, 2012.

According to the survey, 15.4% of Ukrainians said that Yanukovych was the
politician of the year, and 12.2% said that UDAR Party leader Vitali Klitschko
was the politician of the year. Some 9.5% of those polled named former Ukrainian
Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, 8% Svoboda Party leader Oleh Tiahnybok, 7.8%
the leader of the Batkivschyna United Opposition, Arseniy Yatseniuk, and 5%
believe that it was Prime Minister Mykola Azarov. Some 3.2% of respondents
recognized Ukrainian Communist Party leader Petro Symonenko as the politician of
the year, and 2.1% named former Economic Development and Trade Minister Petro
Poroshenko.

Almost the same percentage of respondents (15.7%) believe that the biggest
disappointment of the year is Yanukovych, 11.8% named Azarov, 7.3% Tymoshenko,
6.3% former Deputy Prime Minister Sergiy Tigipko, 5.5% Ukraine-Forward! Party
leader and incumbent Social Policy Minister Natalia Korolevska, 4.2% third
Ukrainian President Viktor Yuschenko, and 3.8% named Yatseniuk. At the same
time, 3.6% of respondents said that all politicians in Ukraine were the biggest
disappointment of the year.

Some 2.8% of respondents named Klitschko as the political disappointment of
the year, 2.6% said that among politicians there were no those who would could
be called the disappointment of the year, 2.4% believe that it is former
Verkhovna Rada Speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn, 2.2% Radical Party leader Oleh Liashko,
1.7% Tiahnybok, 1.2% Symonenko and 1.2% former footballer Andriy Shevchenko.

A total of 2,009 respondents from all regions in Ukraine participated in the
survey. The poll’s margin of error does not exceed 2.3%.