¹17, 2007 Virtual and real orientations of electorsWith approaching of electioneering the information of sociological services, which have never existed, begins to be spread in the Internet (I do not call them in order not to do the excess advertisement to pseudo-sociological services and centers. By request they can be easily found in the Internet, especially in the Russian sites). Correspondingly the information of sociological researches, which have never been carried out, is promulgated. It is worth mentioning that not only ratings of separate political forces, but also concrete questions of ways and directions of public development are falsified in these “researches”. The biggest number of falsifications is in the question of independent development of the state. Developed as the independent state 43,2 United in a union with Created a new union with most post soviet republics 7,3 Became the member of NATO 4,0 Became the member of UE 14,5 Other 0,4 It is difficult to answer 3,6 There is no answer 1,7 The second myth concerns the attitude of population of the country toward pre-term parliamentary elections. So according to the data of Allukrainian sociological service, on the question “do you support the decision of the President about conducting the pre-term elections to the Verkhovna Rada?” respondents answered the following. % of respondents Unambiguously yes 29,7 Probably yes 21,9 Probably no 18,2 Unambiguously no 22,8 It is difficult to answer 6,7 There is no answer 0,6 The third attempt to give out the desired for the real by virtual “sociology” is the following thesis: if presidential elections took place today, Victor Yanukovych would unambiguously win, as he has the greatest rating among politicians. % of respondents Vitrenko Nataliya 3,2 Yuriy Lutsenko 3,6 Lytvyn Volodymyr 4,4 Moroz Oleksandr 3,1 Petro Symonenko 5,5 Tymoshenko Yuliya 18,7 Yushchenko Victor 13,4 Yanukovych Victor 27,5 Other 5,0 It is difficult to answer 14,9 There is no answer 0,7 These are the answers of respondents on the question “If presidential elections took place today, who would you vote for?” in the July questioning of Allukrainian sociological service (we do not see in absolute terms the results got by our service, but plus-minus 3–5 % practically change nothing in correlation of chances of victory of anyone among political leaders in future presidential competitions). % of respondents Vitrenko Nataliya 3,2 Yuriy Lytsenko 3,6 Lytvyn Volodymyr 4,4 Moroz Oleksandr 3,1 Petro Symonenko 5,5 Yuliya Tymoshenko 18,7 Yushchenko Victor 13,4 Yanukovych Victor 27,5 Other 5,0 It is difficult to answer 14,9 There is no answer 0,7 The fourth mystification is the problem of grant the state or official status to Russian language in the Russian-speaking regions of the country. We will show the results of answers of respondents on the question “In what way, do you think, the question of Russian language should be settled in % of respondents Everything should be remained as it is now 46,0 To give the official status to Russian language in the Russian-speaking regions of the country 22,6 To give the status of the second state language to Russian language 23,4 Other 1,5 It is difficult to answer 5,0 There is no answer 1,5 Below we show the results of answers of respondents on the question “How do you estimate the last initiatives of the President concerning the abolition of deputy inviolability (immunity) and privileges for the deputies of the Verkhovna Rada?”. % of respondents Ambiguously positively 55,1 Probably positively than negatively 27,5 Probably negatively than positively 5,5 Ambiguously negatively 3,8 It is difficult to answer 7,4 There is no answer 0,7 Estimation of activity of officials and organs of power by respondents number Positive Negative Positive Negative Difference 1 President 510 1222 20,40 -48,88 -28,48 2 Verkhovna Rada 296 1385 11,84 -55,40 -43,56 3 Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada O. Moroz 361 1429 14,44 -57,16 -42,72 4 Cabinet of Ministers 505 1098 20,20 -43,92 -23,72 5 Prime Minister V. Yanukovych 750 1103 30,00 -44,12 -14,12 6 Chairman of the Secretariat of the President V.Baloga 260 1195 10,40 -47,80 -37,40 7 Ex-premier of the Government Y. Tymoshenko 620 1300 24,80 -52,00 -27,20 8 Head of the 9 Chairman of the Regional Board 422 881 16,88 -35,24 -18,36 10 Mayor 586 853 23,44 -34,12 -10,68 One more reaction for non-fulfillment of pre-election promises by politicians is a considerable change of the political orientations by the population (see a conclusion below, where there are answers to the question “Did your political views change for the last year?”). % of respondents Changed essentially 15,0 Changed a little 29,0 Did not change 48,3 It is difficult to answer 6,3 There is no answer 1,3 Besides they changed not in direction of a certain political force, but as distrust to all functioning political forces (see the conclusion, where there are answers to the question “If they changed, then in what direction?”). % of respondents I was the supporter of “orange”, and became the supporter of coalition majority 5,16 I was the supporter of coalition majority, and became the supporter of “orange” 3,92 I am disappointed with the first and the second, I expect that a new honest political force will appear 15,68 I believe nobody, all politicians deceive people 19,60 Other 5,04 It is difficult to answer 16,60 There is no answer 34,00 Borys SAGALKOV, Anastasiya SAGALKOVA |