We introduce the most important findings of the nation opinion poll (those face-to-face interviewed – 1504 persons aged 18 and over, margin of error does not exceed 0.03), conducted in September of 2005 at the assistance of IISEPS. "No answer" and "Find it difficult to answer" alternatives are not available in the most of the tables.

FOES ALL AROUND?
Tolerance of the Belarusians has already become proverbial. Are they truly that tolerant? To study tolerance/intolerance towards various social groups, social studies use the scales of social distance. In the given poll, respondents were asked to define their attitude to different nationalities, on the five-point scale, from readiness to ally by marriage (or get married) and accept them into their families to simple readiness to live in one country...

POLISH ISSUE
Few problems drew such close attention of the Belarusian publicity as the conflict over Union of Poles in Belarus which grew into an international conflict between Belarus and Poland. According to the polling data, almost 70% of respondents are aware of the conflict...

THOSE WHOM THE BELARUSIANS TRUST
According to the results of the opinion poll, citizens are very careful about most state and public institutions. These are first eight institutions only to which more respondents trust than distrust...

WHO IS WHO IN BELARUS
IISEPS researches including the latest clearly reveal feasible collapse of the Belarusian society in what regards the most acute public issues. Therefore, we should like to consider some sociological features of various population groups, in particular those which differ in social status or occupation...

THE CURRENCY WHICH BELARUSIANS PREFER
The results of the opinion poll demonstrate that many years of titanic efforts undertaken by the National Bank to strengthen the national currency have finally given positive results. Thus, 18 months ago over half of adult population gave preference to the dollar and today their number is 43.5%...

THE INCOMES THEY RECEIVE IN BELARUS
As the state-run mass media induce, choice of the "right economic course" which will not change ensures that common Belarusians will have good incomes providing worthy living, especially comparing to the other countries of the former USSR...

STATE CARE ABOUT COMMON BELARUSIANS
This July the authorities published living wage budget rate which is used from the second half of this year as a norm determining the amounts of most social transfers. Its rate was calculated from June prices for goods and services making the so-called living wage basket and made up 146,150 BYR in average...

ARE BELARUSIANS CONCERNED ABOUT UNEMPLOYMENT?
It is a common truth that an economic system featuring commodity production cannot avoid unemployment unless it practices coercive work or artificially brings down its efficiency. In fact, unemployment is necessary since normal economy development involves various resources including manpower...

WHAT IS GOING ON OVER INTEGRATION?
Estimation of integration moods within Belarusian electorate demonstrates progressively decreasing number of Russia-Belarus unification supporters. Today, one of seven-eight respondents wants this union while three years ago every fifth spoke out for this idea...

FOR TRULY BILINGUAL COUNTRY: BELARUSIAN VS. RUSSIAN LANGUAGES
Recent hot debates on the broadcasting language of Deutsche Welle's new radio program have revealed topicality of the language issue in the Belarusian society which is still taken hard. Yet, is it really taken so hard by the society in general? In the course of the debates, both sides referred to the opinion of the majority of Belarusian citizens...

BELARUS - FOR BELARUSIANS?
In the course of research, we studied connection between the language the respondents use for everyday communication and their political standpoints. According to this research, those who speak Russian in everyday life are more disposed to Belarus’ accession into Europe and less – to integration into Russia and they are also less supporters of President A. Lukashenko than Belarusian-speaking respondents...

WHAT DO PEOPLE THINK ABOUT FLUCTUATIONS OF A. LUKASHENKO'S RATING?
Opinion of the population on fluctuations of A. Lukashenko’s rating both depicts public stereotypes and shows the tendency of president’s rating. This is a kind of leading indicator which points out the trend of a rating change. For example, if you ask several people "What time is it now?" an average value will hit almost exact time. Answers to the question on rating aren’t that clear but they show general tendencies...

RATING OF A. LUKASHENKO AND HIS RIVALS
Data of opinion poll shows that A. Lukashenko’s open rating dropped down right after the presidential election. At the same time, the number of respondents who found it difficult to answer “for whom they would vote if the presidential election is held tomorrow” increased step-wise...

SIDEWALK DEMOCRACY
The talks about possibility or even imminence of colored revolution in Belarus are very popular among supporters of the opposition. A. Lukashenko’s opponents are convinced that the results of the forthcoming election will be falsified and therefore they will have to stand up victory (if any) in street actions of protest...

TRUST TO THE MASS MEDIA
As data of opinion poll shows, state-run mass media enjoy the trust of over a half of respondents. As regards non-state mass media, the number of distrusting to them is even greater. In both cases, many respondents didn’t give any answer at all...

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