Ukrainians barely have faith in their system, do not want the government to appoint local leaders and believe that the country is moving in the wrong direction, reports Ukrainian media site ‘Vesti’ with reference to the results of a study conducted by several international companies and Ukrainian sociological group ‘Rating’.
The survey was conducted in March, it was commissioned by the Canadian government only in regional centers and city of Donbass was not included in the sample.
In all other regional centers the distrust is higher than the trust percentage. The highest level of distrust towards Poroshenko was seen in the cities of the southeast.
In the cities of Odessa, Nikolaev, Zhitomir and Kharkov, confidence rating for Poroshenko did not rise above 29%.
In Kiev, the president is trusted by only 47% of its citizens and not trusted by 50%, reports the publication.
The Prime Minister of Ukraine, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, has a negative image in the entire country. The lowest level of confidence towards prime minister was recorded in Lviv (49%); even less trust for Yatsenyuk was seen in Chernigov and Khmelnitsky.
Similarly, there is absolutely no trust towards him in Kharkiv (79%), Mykolaiv (77%) and Odessa (75%).
In Kiev 61% of the population feels distrust towards Yatsenyuk and only 37% agreed that it is possible to have faith in him.
In most of the regional centers Ukrainians believe that the country is headed in the wrong direction. Even in Lviv, 51% of the population believes that Ukraine is not developing properly.
In Kiev, a similar opinion is shared by 47% of the population. The most pessimistic of the citizens are residing in Lutsk (75%), Kharkiv (72%) and Mykolaiv (73%).
Moreover, according to the publication, the language of common use in cities across Ukraine is different from what was previously said in official statements.
In all of the cities in the west part of the country, Ukrainian is the most commonly used, but already in the central part of the country the predominant use of Russian is — 32% in Kiev, 41% in Chernigov, 26% in Kirovograd and 27% in Sumy.
In the east of Ukraine Russian language is the most commonly spoken language. Apart from Donetsk and Lugansk, where majority of population speak Russian, 84% of the residents in Kharkiv also speak Russian, reports the publication.
