ANALYTICS:

FROM THE LIFE OF THE SOCIAL INDICES
As it was to be expected, literally a collapse of the main social indicators happened in March. For three months which passed since the December opinion poll, the economic crisis "has got at" the majority of the Belarusians...

PURSUING AN INCOMPREHENSIBLE COURSE IN AN OBSCURE DIRECTION
Along with the indices of material well-being and expectations it is useful to scrutinize the course correctness index (CCI). It is calculated with the help of a similar method: negative answers are deducted from the positive ones...

IN SEARCH OF AN ANSWER TO THE CLASSICAL QUESTION
Politicians in power are supposed to demonstrate optimism. This universal rule also applies to Belarus where, as it is known "only one political figure exists"...

SUPERPOWER IN THE BELARUSIAN WAY
For several years already sociologists of the IISEPS have been paying attention to the close dependence between the ratings of the head of the Belarusian state (electoral and trust) and the real earnings of the population...

DEVALUATION OF TRUST
On January, 2^nd the Belarusians got a New Year "present" – the National bank devalued the Belarusian ruble (i.e. reduced its worth relative to the dollar and euro) by 20.5%...

FOREIGN COUNTRIES ARE GOING TO HELP US
It is quite natural to pass from the question "Whose fault is it?" on to the question "What shall we do next?" It is clear that answering the first question a respondent, as it were, turns to look around in his mind...

WATCH OUT! THE AUTHORITIES!
The March opinion poll lets us not only estimate the attitude of the public opinion to the figure of the head of state, which as it has already been mentioned, plays a symbolic part in many respects, but to the authorities as a whole...

I VOTE, BUT I TAKE NO INTEREST IN IT
According to the March opinion poll a little bit more than a quarter of the grown-up population in Belarus is not interested in politics. According to this indicator the country can be safely included into the unanimous family of the European states...

PATERNALISM AND LIBERALIZATION – TWO IN ONE
Vitality of the formula "If it is not him, then who will?" is determined not by the personality strength (charisma) of the head of the Belarusian state, but by his monopolistic right to dispose of the resources concentrated in the hands of the state...

"LET US CONTRIVE A DESPOT..."
What is the secret of authoritarian rulers’ popularity, why do their ratings remain unshakable even in the present crisis situation? The simplest explanation is people’s fear...

THE DISUNITY
IISEPS researches of many years rather convincingly testify to a quite tangible disunity existing in the Belarusian society. Data of the March opinion poll visually confirm this idea...

THE POOR AND THE RICH
As researches of the IISEPS have repeatedly confirmed, the level of well-being determines a quite visible difference in the attitude of people to these or those socially important problems...

THE WARM WIND FROM THE WEST
Careful signals about the desirability of relations normalization with the West which Minsk began to give at the beginning of 2007, have acquired at the present time the character of a geopolitical revolution...

June 6, 2009:
New issue of the monthly E-bulletin "INFOFOCUS" was published

April 16, 2009:
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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