A total of 37.3% of Ukrainians believe the Ukrainian language should be the only state language in Ukraine and Russian should be used on a grassroots level, like other minority languages.
The results of the poll, which was conducted by four sociological services (the Center for Social and Marketing Research SOCIS, the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology, the sociological group Rating, and the Razumkov Center) on the orders of the All-Ukrainian public organization Ukrainian Voters’ Committee, entitled “Ukraine. Presidential Elections 2014, April,” were presented at a press conference hosted by Interfax-Ukraine on Wednesday.
According to the research, 31.7% of the respondents said they wish Ukrainian language to be state, while Russian to be official in some regions of Ukraine; 28.9% of the respondents said they would like Ukraine to have two state languages.
The poll also showed that 59.4% of the respondents believe Ukraine and Russia should be independent, but friendly countries without visas.
A total of 30.8% of the respondents believe the relations between Ukraine and Russia should be the same as with other countries, with borders and visas, 4.8% want the two countries to be united to form a unified state, and 5.1% did not answer the question about Ukrainian-Russian relations.
The poll was conducted on April 9-16, 2014. It surveys 6,200 respondents older than 18. The statistical margin of error is under 0.8%.
