{"id":155,"date":"2022-07-17T16:16:49","date_gmt":"2022-07-17T13:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stage.gradus.app\/?post_type=report&#038;p=155"},"modified":"2026-08-14T11:43:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T08:43:15","slug":"liberal-values-amidst-war","status":"publish","type":"report","link":"https:\/\/stage.gradus.app\/en\/report\/liberal-values-amidst-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Change in liberal values \u200b\u200bof Ukrainians during the war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How is the attitude of Ukrainians to freedoms often called &#8220;liberal values&#8221; changing? The research company Gradus Research conducted a survey on liberal values \u200b\u200band analysed the dynamics of change compared to the pre-war period.<\/p>\n<p>The first insight of the research is that people admit that they have lost control of their lives and cannot take responsibility for what is happening. According to 54%, their lives depend more on external circumstances than on themselves. Two years ago, there were 40% of them. The number of citizens who do not bear any responsibility for the state of affairs in their city or village has almost doubled (from 28% to 48%).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;The level of uncertainty in society is increasing. The number of &#8220;Not sure&#8221; responses increased significantly. And this is quite natural, because the current situation leads to an active reassessment of the personal position on many issues,&#8221; says Evgeniya Bliznyuk, CEO&amp;Founder of Gradus Research.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We can also state awareness of the importance of strengthening the state&#8217;s defence function: answering the question &#8220;If you had the opportunity to increase funding for the army or education and culture, what would you support?&#8221; 66% of respondents chose the &#8220;Army&#8221; option. Two years ago, this alternative was supported by 29% of respondents.<\/p>\n<p>The war undoubtedly affected the unity of Ukrainians and support for the national idea. 73% of respondents are in favour of the transition to full education in the Ukrainian language in schools and universities of Ukraine, compared to 67% the year before.<\/p>\n<p>Those who did not support decommunization in 2020 are now hesitant or consider it necessary. Only 11% of respondents are still against decommunization, instead of 28% in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>People&#8217;s desire to understand the country&#8217;s development trends and see its prospects remains consistently high \u2014 94% in 2020, and 93% of respondents say so now. The situation is similar with independence in judgements, actions, and affairs \u2014 94% of those surveyed two years ago aspired to it, and 93% take this position today.<\/p>\n<p>The results of the survey also indicate that the level of altruism and involvement of Ukrainians in helping others is increasing. A total of 64% of respondents reported their participation in charitable or volunteer activities, in 2020 there were 47%. More people began to put the interests of the group above their own interests \u2014 in August 2020, 39% of Ukrainians chose this position, and now \u2014 44%.<\/p>\n<p>The survey was conducted by the research company Gradus Research using the method of self-filling the questionnaire in the mobile application. The Gradus online panel displays the population structure of cities with more than 50,000 residents aged 18-60 by gender, age, settlement size, and region. Survey period: June 21-22, 2022, sample size: 1,000 respondents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How is the attitude of Ukrainians to freedoms?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2770,"template":"","report_cat":[4],"class_list":["post-155","report","type-report","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","report_cat-press-releases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stage.gradus.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/report\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stage.gradus.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/report"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stage.gradus.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/report"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stage.gradus.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stage.gradus.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"report_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stage.gradus.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/report_cat?post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}