Kharkov agreement cause less optimistic

Optimism in respect of agreements of Kharkiv in Ukraine for the year since their signing, significantly diminished. This was stated by an expert group of the companies R & B Alex Liashenko, presenting the results of public opinion research on topical issues of Ukrainian-Russian relations. "Regarding the Kharkov agreements optimism fell. If a generally positive to the fact they were signed last year included 58% of respondents, but now we have a decline of 20%", - said A. Liashenko. According to him, today Ukrainians' attitude to the signing of agreements is ambiguous: 38% of respondents refer to this generally positive, while 31% hold the opposite point of view. A year ago, as a whole negatively Kharkov agreement estimated 26% of respondents. For the year has increased (from 8% to 15%) of those who are indifferent to the signing of agreements, Kharkiv, from 3% to 7% increase in the number of respondents who answered that they did not know about it. Difficult to answer 9% (last year the figure was 5%). Regionally the most positively to the signing of Kharkiv agreements include more than half the residents of south-east of the country (55%), whereas a negative attitude to this prevails in 52% of Western Ukraine. In this case, the results of the study, now 40% of Ukrainians appreciate the nature of the Kharkov agreements primarily as concessions from the Ukraine, while 30% of respondents rate them as mutually beneficial to both parties. "Today the majority of Ukrainians believes that politically (44%), cost (44%) and overall (42%) of the signed agreements last year won the Kharkov Russia. A year after signing an 11% reduction in the number of Ukrainians who believe that the whole of the signed agreements benefit both parties "- note in R & B. The study was conducted by sociologists R & B from 20 to 31 March 2011. Data was collected using personal interviews in 24 regions of Ukraine and Crimea. Respondents were selected by quota sampling, representing the adult population by place of residence, sex and age. Total polled 2,078 people expected average error is 2.2%. Recall that the April 27, 2010 the Verkhovna Rada has ratified an agreement under which the lease of a naval base in Sevastopol for the Russian Black Sea Fleet is extended for 25 years after the end of the previous agreement, that is, until 2042. This increases the rent for the stationing of the fleet at Sevastopol on the value of the discount to the formula price of Russian gas for Ukraine. The parties agreed that a discount of 30% from the price formula of gas, but not more than $ 100 per thousand. cu. Industry Ministry pm