Sixty-six percent of Ukrainians believe that the situation in their country is evolving in the wrong direction and only 16.7 percent said the opposite, according to the findings of a sociological survey conducted by the Razumkov Center.
The poll was part of a monitoring of public attitudes towards Ukrainian reforms and focuses on the assessment of the domestic situation and the country’s development prospects in the near future. According to the poll, this indicator remained practically invariable throughout 2015.
The poll findings are approximately the same as in 2013, but the proportion of those who believe the situation in their country is evolving in the right direction is now considerably smaller then immediately after the regime change in Ukraine in March 2014, when it stood at 32.3 percent.
Eighteen point seven percent of respondents said Ukraine can overcome difficulties over the next few years; 43.6 percent said it can in the long run and 22 percent said it is not capable of doing so at all.
Six point nine percent of respondents believe that this year the economic crisis will be over and economic growth will begin; 23.1 percent said the crisis will stop deepening but the economy will remain stagnant until the end of the year; 33.8 percent said the economic crisis will deepen but there will be no catastrophic consequences and 23.1 percent said the economy will collapse.
The poll was conducted among 2,008 respondents aged over 18 by Razumkov Center sociologists under the aegis of the Swedish government on Sept. 12-19.
