Yearly Archive: 2014

BULLETINS INFOFOCUS № 12

E-bulletin of IISEPS Center for Documentation, N 12, 2014 – ISSN 1822-5578 (only Russian) Content: Introduction 1. Basic trends of December 2. Chronicle of key events 3. Politics 3.1. Marching archaisation 3.2. Pros and cons of settlement payments in foreign currency 4. Economics 4.1. Opposite courses 4.2. Russia between Crimea euphoria and its consequences 4.3. …

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THE MOST IMPORTANT RESULTS OF THE PUBLIC OPINION POLL IN DECEMBER 2014

THE MOST IMPORTANT RESULTS OF THE PUBLIC OPINION POLL IN DECEMBER 2014 (were interviewed 1.504 persons aged 18 and over, margin of error doesn’t exceed 0.03)   1. It seems that the “split” of public and economic consciousness which emerged under the conditions when the fear of total destabilization, inflicted by the influence of the …

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BULLETINS “IISEPS NEWS” № 4

IISEPS News – ISSN 1822-5535 (Printing), ISSN 1822-5543 (ONLINE), N 4 (74), 2014 Content: Preface MONITORING OF PUBLIC OPINION IN BELARUS: December-2014 On whose heads were all the “cones” falling in 2014? Resource of induced mobilization is exhausting From a reformist to a conservative What does mass consciousness mean by reforms? Right way to archaisation …

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RESULTS OF THE NATION OPINION POLL DECEMBER 2014

NATIONAL POLL 12’14

1. Title of the study: “Monitoring of a public opinion in Belarus”
2. Topics of thematic coverage: political, social and economic factors of development of Belarusian society, integration with Europe and Russia
3. The aim: to study the most important facilitators and obstacles of development of Belarusian society, to support Belarusian democratic forces for social transformations
4. Descriptors: market, economic attitudes, socio-political positions and attitudes, integration, free and democratic election, electoral behavior, opposition, political preferences, political parties, mass media
5. Comparability: most important questions were replicated
6. Geographical area: Belarus-national
7. Source of information: iiseps@iiseps.org
8. Fieldwork dates: 2014, March 24 – April 4
9. Population sampled: 18+ years old residents of Belarus who are not currently in hospital, jail, military service
10. Sampling: clustered random
11. Sample size: 1502 respondents
12. Mode of interviews: face-to-face interview
13. Control: selective control of interviewers
14. Related publications: more then 10 publications in mass media

BULLETINS INFOFOCUS № 11

E-bulletin of IISEPS Center for Documentation, N 11, 2014 – ISSN 1822-5578 (only Russian) Content: Introduction 1. Basic trends of November 2. Chronicle of key events 3. Politics 3.1. “Paint everyone with the same brush” 3.2. Another trade “war” between Belarus and Russia 4. Economics 4.1. Benefit performance of Saudi Arabia 4.2. Made in Russia …

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BULLETINS INFOFOCUS № 10

E-bulletin of IISEPS Center for Documentation, N 10, 2014 – ISSN 1822-5578 (only Russian) Content: Introduction 1. Basic trends of October 2. Chronicle of key events 3. Politics 3.1. Thanks for sincerity and frankness 3.2. Kiev has started to speak Ukrainian 4. Economics 4.1. China takes economical lead 4.2. Brownian motion of Russian economical policy …

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TV-PROPAGANDA AND LIFE

In IISEPS publications on the results of June survey the role of propaganda in relation to Belarusians’ attitude to events in Ukraine was already analyzed: “There is a hypothesis about the almighty propaganda. According to it Belarusians’ evaluations of Ukrainian crisis are defined only by this propaganda. This hypothesis is true only partially. Indeed, the level of support of Russian position is significantly higher among those who regularly watch Russian TV.

ATTITUDE TO SEPARATISM IN BELARUS: “DOVES” AND “HAWKS”

Threat of separatism in Belarus doesn’t seem currently important. Over all the years of independence there was only one faint resemblance not even to separatism, but to protoautonomism – movement “Polisse”. This movement quickly came (and was brought) to nought amid harshly negative attitude of all Belarusian political elite of that time. Moreover, we may add that ethnically Belarus is rather homogenous; there are no regions with high shares of representative of non-title ethnos.

A JAB TO THE WEST, A JAB TO THE EAST

One of the most cited results of the previous survey conducted in June became the answers to the question “If Russia annexed Belarus or its part, what would you do?” 14.2% of respondents answered that they would resist up in arms, 47.7% of respondents would try to adapt to new situation and 16.5% of respondents would even greet such changes.
In light of events in the East of Ukraine these figures are not very inspiring. These events weren’t over in September, when this question was asked in a slightly different form (Table 1).