Ukraine News. Monday 4 February. [Ukrainian sources]

MONDAY HEADLINES:
Russia accused NATO of placing illegal launchers in Romania and Poland.  The Russian parliament has been banned from serving as observers in elections in Ukraine.  Zelensky again walked away Tymoshenko and Poroshenko in the rating of presidential candidates - polls.  Putin taught Russia to hate the West: indicative figures.

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Russian Foreign Ministry accused NATO of launching missiles in Romania and Poland prohibited by the medium-and long-range missile agreement

This is stated in the comments of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the statement of the Alliance on the full support of the US decision to withdraw from the missile treaty.

The Russian Foreign Ministry stated that NATO was not ready for a "meaningful dialogue on the issue of launchers of Mk-41, which are located in Romania, and next year will appear in Poland, which violate the provisions of the DRSMD."

"These complexes are integrated into the NATO missile defense system, therefore the Alliance is also directly responsible for undermining the Treaty," the statement reads in the statement issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.

espreso.tv  In Ukrainian/український

People's deputies registered bill number 9524 on prohibition of citizens of an aggressor country to work as observers in elections in Ukraine

This was announced by Facebook's first vice-speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Iryna Gerashchenko.

"Together with colleagues registered a bill on the inability to attend observers from an aggressor country of Russia in the Ukrainian presidential and parliamentary elections, calling on colleagues to support the position of Ukrainian diplomacy in the Verkhovna Rada and adopt a bill that would disable the presence of Russian observers in international missions," wrote Gerashchenko

The text of the draft law and accompanying documents has not yet been made public at 12:30 on the website of the Verkhovna Rada.

espreso.tv  In Ukrainian/український

The leader in the presidential rating is Vladimir Zelensky, who is ready to support 21.9% of those who are determined to vote and are ready to vote

The corresponding rating  was made on the basis of a survey conducted by Social Monitoring Center, O. Yaremenko Ukrainian Institute for Social Research, Info Sapiens Company, and the Rating Group Sociological Group.

According to the rating, the showman outstripped Yulia Tymoshenko, supported by 19.2% of voters and Petro Poroshenko, supported by 14.8% of those who are determined and will vote.

According to Yuriy Boyko, 10.4% are ready to vote, Anthony Grytsenko - 8.4%, Oleh Lyashka - 6.5%, Evgeny Muraev - 3.4%, Andriy Sadovyi - 2.4%, Oleksandr Shevchenko - 2.2 %. Oleksandr Vilkul is ready to vote 1.8% of respondents, according to Koshulinsky Ruslan 1% of respondents.

The rating of all other candidates is less than 1%.

"At the same time, almost every fifth voter believes that Tymoshenko will become the next president (22.1%). Poroshenko's victory is believed by 16.6% of those who intend to take part in elections, Zelensky - 11.1% "- said sociologists.

However, the leader in anti-rating is Petro Poroshenko. For him, 50% of those polled would not vote in any circumstances. 30% of those polled would not give their votes for Tymoshenko, for Boyko and Yatsenyuk - about a quarter, for Lyashko - one in five.  

81% of the respondents are ready to vote in the presidential election (45% are definitely ready, 36% are ready to go).

Certificate. The polls were held January 19-30. Sociologists interviewed 10,000 respondents in all regions of Ukraine (excluding the population of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the occupied territories of Donetsk and Lugansk oblasts). The statistical sampling error does not exceed 1%.



espreso.tv  In Ukrainian/український

The number of Russians who did not want to move abroad, has reached the maximum in the last seven years and was 61%.

This is evidenced by the data of the Levada Center survey, Kommersant reports.

Thus, only 17% of respondents say about the desire to emigrate, most of them young people under 24 years of age. According to sociologists, a significant part of the population "is so poorly funded that it does not even imagine emigration as a real possibility."

The number of Russians who "definitely would not like to move abroad" increased over the year from 56% to 61% and reached the maximum for the last 7 years, sociologists have found.

Approximately the same number of citizens of Russia (58%) over the past five years were not abroad. According to political analyst Abbas Gallyamov, this "works for power".

"For people who have never been, for example, in Europe, it's easier to convince them that there is a tendency towards sexual minorities and hatred towards Russia than those who were there. The low level of government support among more affluent citizens is due to the fact that they "regularly go abroad and see themselves, others are forced to look at the world through the eyes of domestic telepropagandists," - says the expert.

The most important thing about readiness to emigrate affects the age. 41% of those polled from 18 to 24 expressed their desire to move abroad. Young people also better perceive those who left compatriots from Russia: 96% of this age group refer to emigrants "positively" and "neutral". In the older age group (55 years old), the most negative attitude toward emigrated was recorded - 23%.

apostrophe.ua  In Ukrainian/український