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Institute of World Policy has presented the results of the opinion poll “What Ukrainians think about Ukraine?” on August 20.{1}
In June 2015, the Institute of World Policy had presented the results of the survey on perception of Ukraine by citizens of six most populated countries of the EU. The main findings of the survey were as follows: Ukraine is primarily associated with war, Russia, and poverty; the main obstacles to Ukraine’s accession to the European Union are corruption and oligarchy. However, one third of the citizens of the aforesaid countries believe that protecting Ukraine from Russia’s aggression is a valid reason to provide Ukraine with membership in the EU in the future.

The IWP decided to find out whether the perception of Ukraine by its own citizens is different from perception of the EU residents as well as to understand whether we perceive the requirements for opening the door to the European Union before Ukraine in the same way. The results of these two “mirroring” surveys could allow us to identify the differences in understanding of European integration processes by Ukrainians and the EU citizens and thus to formulate a more realistic European agenda for Ukraine.
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Alyona Getmanchuk, Director, Institute of World Policy, and Sergiy Solodkyy, First Deputy Director, Institute of World Policy

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Mykola Riabchuk, journalist, essayist, novelist
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Oleh Rybachuk, Former Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine on European Integration, Director of “Centre UA”
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To download the publication “What do Ukrainians Think about Ukraine?” please click here.

The opinion poll was conducted by the TNS company on request of the Institute of World Policy within “New European Policy: Filling the Awareness Gap” project supported by “Ukraine National Initiatives to Enhance Reforms” (UNITER) project, funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and implemented by the Pact in Ukraine.