“According to sociologists, the difference with the results of March 2023 is insignificant, the situation regarding Russian-speaking citizens of Ukraine has not changed in a year and a half”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
According to sociologists, the difference with the results of March 2023 is insignificant, the situation regarding Russian-speaking citizens of Ukraine has not changed in a year and a half.
In KMIS, the attitude towards citizens of Ukraine, who are Russian by nationality, is the worst (of the groups they studied).
According to the results of the survey, 39% of respondents are ready to allow them into their environment, and 29% agree that they should live in Ukraine (68% in total). 32% have a xenophobic attitude towards them.
Sociologists note certain positive dynamics – there has been a 10 percentage point increase in the number of people who are ready to admit ethnic Russian Ukrainians into their closest social circle, and the number of those who have a xenophobic attitude has decreased by 7 percentage points.
“The worst situation is the attitude towards ethnic Russian Ukrainians. The negative attitude towards Russians-citizens of Russia is a natural defense mechanism, an adequate and necessary reaction of any normal person to the support of the majority of the population of Russia for an insidious and cruel war against our country. But, unfortunately, as our research shows, these feelings were partially transferred by Ukrainians to citizens of Ukraine who are Russians by nationality. This is an understandable, but not a rational and unfair reaction to the actions of a real enemy”, – notes the general director of KMIS Volodymyr Paniotto.
From September 20 to October 3, 2024, the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS) conducted its own all-Ukrainian public opinion survey “Omnibus”. 989 respondents were interviewed by the method of telephone interviews based on a random sample in all regions of Ukraine (territory under the control of the Government of Ukraine).