Situationen i Ukraina just nu, del 4

And it is really ignored. This is why Ukraine does not conduct a census of its population. The last time the "livestock" of Ukrainians was recounted in 2001, it was found that 48.5 million people live in the country. By the way, Ukraine is close to breaking a kind of anti-record on extremely rare and irregular censuses (speaking about the CIS, only in Uzbekistan things are worse).

The authorities are so reluctant to reveal the truth about how many people are left in Ukraine that they even ignore the UN regulations. Population census had to be conducted in 2010, but it was postponed to 2012. Then from 2012 to 2013, from 2013 to 2016, and from 2016 to 2020. All the presidents of Ukraine, beginning with Kuchma, believe that this complicated topic should not be touched at all. The census has been "rescheduled" for the period after the presidential and parliamentary elections, which will take place next year in Ukraine.

One in four Ukrainian citizens do not believe that Ukraine as an independent state will get to its feet in the foreseeable future, and 40% hope the country will overcome hardships in the next 10-15 years, sociologists say.

An analytical material in Ukraine's Mirror Weekly (ZN.UA) published on Saturday, January 27, which is devoted to the problem of emigration from Ukraine, based on the ZN.UA questionnaire, notes: "Twenty-five percent of respondents, when asked to answer the question 'Do you believe that Ukraine as an independent state will get to its feet?' said that they deny the probability of such a scenario in the foreseeable future. This is the second most popular answer. The percentage of those who expect irreversible positive changes in the next 10-15 years is higher - 40.4%. The smallest percentage – 16.1% - is optimists who are confident that all will get better in five years."

"Those who do not believe in the speedy consistency of Ukraine as a state are 30% of those who are ready to leave the country, 64% of those who are ready to leave Ukraine forever, 57% of those who are ready to vote for money, 42% of those who do not vote in elections without seeing this makes any sense, and 31% of those who visit polling stations from time to time," the newspaper notes.

Respondents also named no more than three main factors hampering Ukraine's development. Some 42.4% of respondents named oligarchs as the main obstacle to the development of the country, 32.9% the Verkhovna Rada, 26.3% the president, 26.3% the government, and 16% officials.

Russia is considered an obstacle to Ukraine's development by 14.5%, a pro-Russian "fifth column" by 12%, parties by 6.5%, Ukrainian nationalists by 5.3%, courts by 4.5%, and Jews by 3.6%

When asked about the attitude towards labor migration to Russia, 41.9% said that work in Russia is an acceptable thing if there are no earnings at home. Another 21.2% chose the "philosophical" version of the answer: "it does not matter where to earn money." At the same time, 76.1% of respondents in the south and 74.5% in the east of Ukraine note the acceptability of labor migration to Russia. Work in Russia is also supported by 60% of respondents living in the central regions of the country and 49.4% of respondents in the western regions of Ukraine.

Of those who decided on their attitude towards Ukrainian guest workers in Russia (14.8% found it difficult to answer this question), the possibility of working in Russia is admitted by 74% of respondents living in the center, and 58.6% of respondents in the west.

The latest investigation by Sputnik journalist Andei Veselov has revealed the truth behind the killing of both protesters and law enforcement officers during Ukraine’s Maidan by unknown snipers.

According to Andrei Veselov, they later went into hiding somewhere in Armenia, because they are afraid that their former employers, two acting members of Ukrainian parliament, Sergei Pashinsky and Volodymyr Parasyuk, will put a bounty on their heads for uncovering the truth.