ANALYTICS:

THE MOST IMPORTANT RESULTS OF THE NATIONWIDE PUBLIC OPINION POLL

PERSONAL OPTIMISM AGAINST THE BACKGROUND OF PUBLIC PESSIMISM
In the opinion of the overwhelming majority of Belarusians the year of 2011 turned out to be more difficult than the previous one. A. Lukashenko also supported the assessment in the course of the press conference for the Belarusian and foreign mass media on December...

TO LIVE IS DIFFICULT, BUT IT CAN BE ENDURED
A timid hint at a growth in the positive attitude registered in September took shape of a clear tendency in December. If in September the financial standing index (FSI) and the expectation index (EI) increased by 3.2 and 3.8 percentage points respectively, and the index of policy correctness (PCI) continued to decrease (–15.8 points relative to September), then in December the FSI added 15.9, the EI – 11.9, and the PCI – 21.4 percentage points!..

DOES A MYTHICAL CANDIDATE HAVE A CHANCE?
The September historic minimum of A. Lukashenko’s electoral rating did not remain unnoticed by its owner: on October 7 in the course of a press conference for the mass media of Russian regions head of the Belarusian state expounded his view on the dynamics of his own rating...

THE "MAJORITY" IS FOR DEMOCRACY AND MARKET
In spite of the fact that under the influence of objective and subjective factors certain progress in supporting the authorities and the policy pursued by them has begun to show for the last three months, a demand for changes remains on a record high level in Belarusian society. As is the established tradition in Belarus, presidential elections concur with the peak of social payments...

I BELIEVE BECAUSE I AM LOYAL
At the end of November D. Konovalov and V. Kovalev accused of organizing an act of terror in Minsk underground were sentenced to the supreme penalty – execution. Just the way it should be in a split society, public opinion concerning the complicity of the persons under sentence of death in the act of terror in Minsk underground was divided: 37% believed the guilt of the sentenced, 43.4% did not believe it and 19.6% found it difficult to answer...

POLITICAL APATHY AS A STABILITY FACTOR
In spite of the notion spread in our daily life, a decrease in the population’s income does not lead to a growth in the protest moods. This political science axiom is being mastered with difficulty by the expert community in Belarus. Hopes for a "hot" autumn, which once again were not fated to come true, follow from here...

FACTORS OF A GEOPOLITICAL CHOICE
In the course of the December opinion poll respondents were asked traditional questions about their geopolitical orientation. The data of poll show a shift of public opinion geopolitical priorities which occurred during the last quarter – farther from Europe. However, the changes reveal themselves to a different extent by various wordings of the questions...

WHO WILL TAKE A GRENADE LAUNCHER?
At the beginning of November A. Lukashenko announced creating of a territorial defense system in Belarus. According to the plan, it should become something like another army, a partisan movement just like the one that existed in Belarus during the years of World War II. The territorial defense announcement was made at the final stage of the Libyan revolution...

LIBYAN REVOLUTION AND PUBLIC OPINION OF BELARUS
The data of the December opinion poll give us an opportunity to estimate attitude of Belarusians to the overthrow of the Libyan leader M. Gaddafi...

LABOR MARKET AND LABOR RELATIONS FOR WOMEN AND YOUNG PEOPLE IN BELARUS

February 4, 2012:
New issue of the monthly E-bulletin "INFOFOCUS" was published

October 21, 2011:
New issue of the quarterly analytical bulletin "IISEPS News" was published

ACTUAL TRENDS
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IISEPS National Opinion Polls
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