celebrating its 33rd anniversary, and literally a year before independence , the kyiv international institute of social sciences began work. which you lead, and you actually had the opportunity to watch public opinion change in real time. i just want to discuss and analyze with you today how the self-identification of ukrainians has changed from the first years of independence to the current period, to a country at war. let's start, probably, with what were such views on the beginning of the 90s, when everything was going to the collapse of the soviet union. how did you rate then? i know that the first study conducted by the commission was devoted to the referendum on the independence of ukraine. please tell us more about it. we owe much of our appearance to radio liberty. our first research was for the american sociologist melvin cohn, who was the president of the american sociological association, but we could not have done it if it were not for the cooperation with the rf research institute. and actually research the institute established the standards of sociological research that existed in ukraine, he, th