Monthly Archive: December 2015

December 29, 2015

The most important results of the public opinion poll in December 2015

THE MOST IMPORTANT RESULTS OF THE PUBLIC OPINION POLL IN DECEMBER 2015

THE MOST IMPORTANT RESULTS OF THE PUBLIC OPINION POLL IN DECEMBER 2015 (were interviewed 1.503 persons aged 18 and over, margin of error doesn’t exceed 0.03) 1. Financial well-being of Belarusians remains unstable in the fourth quarter:   Over 51% of interviewed consider that current year was more difficult for Belarus than the previous one …

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National Poll 12’15

National Poll 12’15 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 …

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IISEPS News # 4, 2015

IISEPS News – ISSN 1822-5535 (Printing), ISSN 1822-5543 (ONLINE), N 4 (78), 2015 Content: Preface MONITORING OF PUBLIC OPINION IN BELARUS: December-2015 Time to reduce needs Voting as a duty or a source of hope Elections’ results broken down by basic socio-demographic groups Phenomenon of Korotkevich: the third Belarus He advances slogans without doing anything …

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Monthly E-bulletin “INFOFOCUS” N 12, 2015

E-bulletin of IISEPS Center for Documentation, N 12, 2015 – ISSN 1822-5578 (only Russian) Content: Introduction 1. Basic trends of December 2. Chronicle of key events 3. Politics 3.1. Economy recovery recipes from ex-presidential adviser 3.2. Venezuela lessons for Belarus 4. Economics 4.1. World economy growth rates will be “disappointing” in 2016 4.2. Four echelons …

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RESULTS OF THE NATION OPINION POLL conducted on December 2-12, 2015

RESULTS OF THE NATION OPINION POLL conducted on December 2-12, 2015 (1.503 persons interviewed, margin of error does not exceed 0.03) 1. Was the past year more difficult or easier for Belarus than the previous one? Variant of answer   % More difficult 51.1 Same 41.0 Easier 5.8 DA/NA 2.1 2. What’s more important for …

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DECEMBER 2015: STATE RETURNS AFFECTION, BUT NOT TO EVERYONE

In the manner of Brezhnev’s epoch the last year of the fourth five-year period could be logically named “final”. However, using formal characteristic in this case would be precipitant, because in the manner of Stalin’s epoch this year should be considered crucial. This year brought closure to the “fat” years of steady growth of people’s …

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DECEMBER 2015: ELECTIONS’ RESULTS BROKEN DOWN BY BASIC SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC GROUPS

Results of December IISEPS survey give us an opportunity to study the results of presidential elections 2015 from the socio-demographic and regional aspects. General results are presented in Table 1. The Central Election Commission presents official results of voting based on the turnout of voters. According to official results the turnout amounted to 87.22%. To compare …

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DECEMBER 2015: AS FAR AS POSSIBLE FROM THE EU

December ISIEPS survey recorded a record low share of EU integration supporters. Majority of respondents approve of the freeze on sanctions towards Belarusian officials. Regarding Russian airbase in Belarus, the opinions were divided with a slight advantage on the side of its supporters. Over the quarter from September to December 2015 the share of “Euro-Belarusians” …

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DECEMBER 2015: PARADOXES OF BELARUSIAN LOVE TO ALEXIEVICH

As Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko once wrote, “a poet in Russia is more than a poet”. And what about Belarus? And what about someone who was decorated by the most important literary award in the world? On the other hand, it looks like the epoch, when men of letters were “regents of our dreams” and …

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