Svyatoslav Voloshyn,
veterinarian

“Nothing will change for the better. We have never had order here. Probably something can change for the better if young people come to power, but our young politicians are not too organized and most of them just want to profit off the state.”

Lidiya Slisarchuk,
pensioner

“I hope something will change for the better, although I don’t really believe it will. We had a lot of changes but none of them worked out. We still have very small pensions that barely let us live.”

 

Viktoria Kruglyk,
unemployed

“I hope the upcoming year will bring us all the best. I am an optimist. So I believe that all the problems will be gone with this year and the new 2012 year will bring us more and more good things step by step.”

Dmytro Dmy­trenko,
typographer

“It will get better in a way – we will get more accustomed to everything. Human beings can get used to everything and to any authorities. We are not an exception.”

Tetyana Ostaltseva,
music teacher

“I think there will be a deepening of the [economic] crisis and everything will get even worse. I’ve heard a lot of political and economic forecasts and all of them are very disappointing. I tend to believe them.”