We introduce the most important findings of the nation opinion poll (those face-to-face interviewed – 1430 persons aged 18 and over, margin of error does not exceed 0.03). "No answer" and "Find it difficult to answer" alternatives are not available in the most of the tables.

FOR WHOM TO VOTE AT THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION?
Although the election campaign is now in full swing, many Belarusians haven’t yet decided for whom to vote or are still having doubts about their choice. Over a half of respondents said that they “presently have little information about presidential candidates to make choice with confidence”...

WILL THE BELARUSIANS KNOW TRUTH ABOUT THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION?
It is very little time left before the presidential election in Belarus but many Belarusians feel uncertain and doubtful as it approaches. Less than 55% believe that the election will be ‘free and fair’ and every third sticks to the opposite viewpoint. Lack of information about candidates is one of the reasons...

CONSOLIDATION OF ELECTORATES
Results of electoral polls in Belarus typically reveal a huge gap between open and closed ratings of all politicians except A. Lukashenko. At a time when an election is a long-term perspective, open ratings of president’s opponents make 2-5%...

"SPIRAL OF SILENCE" AS A MECHANISM OF COLORED REVOLUTION
These are not only candidate’s personal traits which provide for electoral preferences. Results of sociological surveys demonstrate a close relation between preferences given to this or that candidate and voters’ political viewpoints, their welfare and socio-demographic characteristics...

WILL BELARUSIANS UPHOLD THEIR CHOICE?
So little time left before the voting date of March 19, the issue on agenda is not so much who will take the presidential seat (no surprises are expected here) but how defeated candidates and their supporters will behave. Adherents of changes make at least one third of all voters...

EXTREME METHOD OF SOLVING EVERYDAY PROBLEMS
Past few years have showed that Belarusians more and more often go on hunger strikes as the last means of fight for their rights; they more and more often go on regular strikes as well. All this points out to increase of social tension in the society. However, these are single instances which still attract attention, especially as regards hunger strikes...

WHOSE SOCIO-ECONOMIC PROGRAM IS MORE ATTRACTIVE?
According to data of poll, the most topical among the problems determining the electoral choice of the Belarusians are still socio-economic problems like general quality of living (44.2% of respondents), rising prices (31.8%), healthcare (24.8%) and employment (23.1%)...

THOSE WHO ARE NOT SATISFIED WITH THE QUALITY OF LIFE SUPPORT THE DEMOCRATS
According to data of poll, population is in general very positive about dynamics of its welfare. For the past three years, the number of those who think that their welfare improved during the previous three months has increased 3.6-fold (from 6.5% to 23.5%) and the number of those who think that it aggravated has dropped down 2.9-fold (from 41.6% to 14.2%)...

JUSTICE, WHAT IS THIS?
Different people read differently into this concept. At the same time, there is tacit consent in the society about what is fair and what is not. According to the February opinion poll, 54.9% of respondents think that the presidential election in Belarus will be free and fair while 32.1% – almost a third – stick to the opposite viewpoint...

HOW DO THEY LIVE IN BELARUS?
Belarusian state-run mass media regularly report that due to ‘the right choice of economic course,’ which the authorities are not going to change, common Belarusians have decent incomes which ensure their worthy living, especially as compared to the countries of the former USSR. Is this true? Let’s look closer into this...

THREE "FOR," TWO "AGAINST"?
As the data of poll shows, 58.5% of respondents think that the country goes in the right direction. Twofold less respondents (28.1%) think in the opposite. The dynamics of answers reveals that the number of the first has increased 2.7-fold over the past three years and the number of the second has dropped down more than twofold (55.6%)...

GEOPOLITICAL COMPASS OF ELECTION
As the opinion poll showed, the Belarusian society still greatly cherishes Pro-Russian sympathies and attitudes. Asked “What variant of Russia-Belarus relations is the best you think?”, 45.5% of respondents said “good neighborly relations of two independent states”, 39.2% – “union of independent states” and 13.6% – “integration into a single state”...

VOTERS CLAIM: CANDIDATES HAVE UNEQUAL ACCESS TO STATE-RUN MASS MEDIA
Before presidential candidates were allowed to address population from TV and radio, independent sociologists conducted an opinion poll among Belarusian citizens on the following question: “Do you think presidential candidates have the same degree of access to the state-run mass media as A. Lukashenko?”...

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