We introduce the most important findings of the nation opinion poll (those face-to-face interviewed – 1514 persons aged 18 and over, margin of error does not exceed 0.03)and the opinion poll among public opinion leaders and experts (about 60 persons), conducted in November-December of 2005. "No answer" and "Find it difficult to answer" alternatives are not available in the most of the tables.

OTHER ALEXANDER, OTHER BELARUS
In mid-December, the authorities announced that the forthcoming presidential election in Belarus would be held on March 19, 2006 and not in Jule as planned before. This is four months earlier. Obviously, the authorities try to expedete the process. Why?...

ELITE RECOGNIZED A SOLE CANDIDATE FOR DEMOCRATIC FORCES A. MILINKEVICH
Changing the status quo is presently more important for Belarus than maintaining it. This is the prevailing stance of public opinion leaders and experts from both public and private sectors...

STUB OF FREEDOM
"Liberty is a common principle which either all or none of nationals enjoy as their inalienable right. Partial liberty is, as I see it, the worst form of slavery. This is a true peril when liberty is cut in bites and each time as to the expediency,” said Edmund Burk, prominent British philosopher, several centuries ago...

HOW DO "COMMON CITIZENS" LIVE?
The state propaganda has been praising socio-economic achievements of Belarus over lately and gave due to the president’s good care about common Belarusians...

CIVIC IDENTITY
There’s a common opinion that the Belarusian nation is “semi-built” and the Belarusian identity is hazy and unclear. However, polling results disprove this pessimistic standpoint...

EUROPEAN PROSPECTS FOR BELARUS
Despite high popularity in Belarus of the politician who promised nine years ago not to lead its people after the civilized world, the Belarusians have fairly kind feelings to this very civilized world...

ELITE WANT INTO EU BUT DON'T BELIEVE THAT THEY CAN SUCCEED
Public opinion leaders and experts from both public and private sectors are amazingly unanimous in their assessments of relations between Belarus and EU member states: an overwhelming majority called them very poor...

"SAVIOR" OF RUSSIAN CIVILIZATION WILL COME FROM THE WEST?..
Results of the nation public opinion poll show that supporters of Russia-Belarus integration into a single state are getting fewer and fewer in Belarus. Today, only one of eight respondents wants this unlike three years ago when every fifth citizen supported this idea...

ELITE TRUST THE INTERNET AND WATCH EURONEWS
Polling among leaders and experts has given incredible results. It has turned out that over a half of the elite trusts the Internet sources rather than traditional mass media...

WHAT DO VOTERS WANT?
What would you like to ask the current president A. Lukashenko and his major rival A. Milinkevich, a sole candidate for democratic forces, if you happen to meet them during the election campaign?..

IN SEARCH OF CAMPAIGN'S HIT
Will any question of these become the most important at the presidential election of 2006? We can come to certain conclusions based on the questions which respondents in general as well as supporters and opponents separately asked to the president...

DIFFERENCES BETWEEN AGE GROUPS
Among age groups, the most interested in communicating with both A. Lukashenko and democratic candidate A. Milinkevich are the citizens aged 60 and over as well as those between 30 and 50 years old. Naturally, frequency of questions to the president and his major rival is very different...

LANGUAGE OF POLITICAL COMMUNICATION
What language should they speak with voters? For both major candidates, Russian is the most beneficial during the election campaign. Thus, respondents who asked A. Milinkevich the most frequent questions marked Russian as the language of their everyday communication (this variant of answer ranges from 52.5% to 79.3%)...

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