Popular discontent with exorbitant prices of utilities can boil over in Ukraine

According to recent opinion polls, the number of supporters of the European direction of Ukraine’s economic development decreased by 2%. A fall in support of the so-called European integration can be explained by the fact that reforms in this country are not economically effective, whereas popular discontent with the exorbitant prices of utilities can boil over sometime soon. Importantly, 30% and 25% of the pollees in the eastern and southern Ukraine respectively are in favor of joining the Customs Union of Byelorussia, Kazakhstan, Russia and other republics of the former Soviet Union.