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However, when asked which of the issues affect respondents personally inflation comes out on top with 42%, which is a trait common to the whole CIS. The years of hyperinflation in the 90s have clearly traumatised the populations of the east that saw their life savings wiped out by inflation in a few short years, which they continue to associate with crises.
More interestingly support for accession to the EU has been growing steadily from 36% in 2012 to 52% now – its highest level in six years. Over the same period support for joining the Russia-led Customs Union (now the Eurasia Economic Union (EEU)) has fallen from 43% to 18%.
With this one there is a wide disagreement in the country with the western Ukrainian pro-nationalist regions voting overwhelmingly for the EU (75%) while the more Russophile eastern regions being more pro-the Customs Union (34%) than the EU (28%).
Ukrainians remain a lot more ambivalent on Nato membership, although over the last four years their over all position has flipped from 34% for joining Nato and 43% again joining in March 2013, to 43% for and 33% against now.
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