VIEW OF USA AND RUSSIA FROM BELARUS
Over the past twelve years, public opinion about the West in Belarus has being built under the influence of open boarders on the one hand and under heavy pressure of state propaganda on the other hand. As the result, there are two interrelated visions which have got outlined within the society at present...

ECONOMIC VIEWPOINTS OF POPULATION ARE GETTING ROSE-COLORED
According to poll results, nowadays an overwhelming majority of Belarusians (over 60%) give preference to the market economy. Their number remains approximately the same with small fluctuations....

FEELING OF ECONOMIC WELL-BEING AMONG POPULATION IMPROVES
According to poll results, financial and economic issues remain the most acute for population among all other topical problems of their everyday living. It should be noted though that the degree of people’s concern about these problems have dropped down considerably over the past two years....

"WHAT WILL THE FUTURE BRING?.."
As the results of the opinion poll show, the population gives progressively more support to the socio-political course of country’s development. Thus, according to Table 1, after the unfavorable for the authorities year 2002, the part of those who think that the country in general goes in the right direction is going steadily up...

STRUCTURE OF FOREIGN POLICY PRIORITIES OF BELARUSIANS
Opinion polls generally ask many different questions pertaining to international politics and in particular to attitude of respondents to Russia. As researches reveal, answers greatly depend on the wording of a question. For example, a general question about attitude to integration with Russia shows one result, a question offering several integration alternatives – other result while Russia vs. Europe dilemma may bring to the results which are different from the first two...

OUR REPLY TO GAZPROM
The first signs of possible rising of prices for gas in 2007 to the world level on the part of Gazprom showed up in March. We already gave thorough analysis to the results of opinion polls on the gas issue conducted in late April and in early June...

WHO NEEDS THIS COUNTRY?
The question in the title may seem a little odd, yet answer to this question will let us have a look into the country’s future. Possibility of democratic transformations in Belarus depends on presence of a social entity concerned in such transformations. Apart from concern in transformations, it should be as well interested in the country itself...

OPINION OF THE POPULATION ABOUT ENTREPRENEURSHIP
As the polling data show, positive attitude to entrepreneurship firmly dominates in the Belarusian society despite active anti-entrepreneurship stand of the authorities. Table 1 reveals that positive estimates of the role of businessmen in the society are fourfold more than negative!..

WHAT DOES POPULATION THINK ABOUT ITS EXPENSES
The polling data show that the expenditure pattern of the population is undergoing positive changes. In particular, running costs for groceries and apartment are decreasing. As it goes from Table 1, expenses for groceries have gone down fourfold and costs for apartment – 6.7-fold over the past two years...

INDICATORS OF INTERNATIONAL COMPARISONS
In the course of the opinion poll respondents were asked questions pertaining to international comparisons. For example, they were offered to compare situation in Russia and Belarus as well as in the EU countries...

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