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decision to introduce an agricultural land market in Ukraine should be made at an all-Ukrainian referendum, according to the results of a survey. If that referendum were held then 64% said they would vote against the introduction of a land market for agricultural land in Ukraine, 36% would support this initiative. Granting foreigners the right to buy agricultural land in Ukraine is even more unpopular, but has been part of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) recommendations for Ukraine’s land market reforms as it would attack tens of billions of dollar in investment. Only 15% of those polled support opening up the land market to foreign investors. The land market legislaton is already on the books, but due to the political sensitivity of the issue the final bill accepted by the Rada is a very much watered down version of the initial draft and limits the selling to small plots of land for the time being. Two-thirds of the respondents know about the opening of the agricultural land market that comes into effect on July 1, 2021 -- 46% have heard a lot about it, 32% have heard something, and 22% do not know anything behind this, the survey found as cited by Interfax Ukraine.
Four parties the Servant of the People, Opposition Platform - For Life, European Solidarity and Batkivschyna may be re-elected to the parliament.
These are the results of a poll conducted by the Ukrainian Sociological Group, which were presented at an online press conference at Interfax-Ukraine on Wednesday.
Some 21.2% of respondents, who will vote and have made their choice, will support the Servant of the People party; the Opposition Platform - For Life is supported by 18.5% of respondents, European Solidarity – 16.6%, and Batkivschyna – 12.7%.
Some 4.7% of respondents are ready to vote for the Strength and Honor party, 4.4% of respondents are ready to vote for the Groysman's Ukrainian Strategy party, 3.9% of respondents are ready to vote for the Svoboda party, 3.4% of respondents are ready to vote for the Holos party, 3.1% for Shariy party, and 2.8% for Oleh Liashko's radical party.
The poll was conducted form April 27 to May 2, 2021 in all regions of Ukraine, except for Crimea and the occupied territory of Donetsk and Luhansk regions. Some 1,220 respondents aged 18 and over were interviewed by the method of individual face-to-face interviews at the place of residence of the respondents (at home). The statistical error of the sample does not exceed 3%.
in Europe and conclude the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact,” according to a public opinion poll conducted by the Kyiv-based Democratic Initiatives Foundation (DIF). The survey results also showed that 46% of Ukrainians agree that the Soviet Union wouldn’t have been able to win the war against Nazi Germany without the help of the Western allies, while 35% are of the opposite opinion.
Nearly a quarter (23%) of adult Ukrainians want to emigrate and a third (35%) of younger respondents say they want to live in another country, according to a nationwide survey by Liberty Report. The distribution of those that are unhappy with life in Ukraine is split geographically with those living in the Russophone easter of the country being more keen to emigrate than those in the west: Half of 14-17 year old who want to leave are in eastern Ukraine, but only 20% of young respondents in the west want to go. The favoured emigration destinations are firstly United States and Canada, followed by the European Union.
The same survey found that two thirds (63%) of adult women and half of the adult men fear that Russia may take over more of Ukraine.
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