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Among the surveyed citizens of Ukraine, 39.7 percent do not believe in the success of reforms in the country and 42 percent believe that nothing has been achieved to implement the necessary reforms, according to a poll conducted by the Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Foundation and the Ukrainian Sociology Service.

In particular, 39.7 percent of respondents do not believe in the progress of reforms; 26.9 percent – do not believe in general, but hope, 21.6 percent – believe, although have doubts, – 5.5 percent are confident of conducting reforms, while 6.3 percent of them found it difficult to answer.

Answering the question how they assess the progress of reforms, and how much was done of what the government had to do, 41.5 percent of those surveyed said nothing has been done, – 35.2 percent think that about 10 percent has been done, – 10.5 percent believe that no more than a third has been done, – 2.5 percent think no more than a half has been done, while 0.4 percent consider that the most of the necessary reforms have already been done. Some 9.8 percent of respondents found it difficult to answer this question.

In the course of the survey, 1,614 respondents aged over 18 years were interviewed. The poll was conducted from Oct. 23 until Nov. 5 in all regions of the country (except for Crimea and occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions). The theoretical sampling error does not exceed 2.6 percent.