Ukrainians demonstrate a restrained and divided attitude towards Turkmenistan. This is evidenced by the results of a nationwide sociological survey conducted by Active Group in cooperation with the Experts Club analytical center in April 2025.
According to the survey, 61.3% of Ukrainians said they had a neutral attitude toward this Central Asian country. Those with a positive attitude (16.3%) and a negative attitude (16.4%) were almost equally divided. In particular, 10.8% of respondents consider it mostly positive, and 5.4% consider it completely positive. On the other hand, 13.3% of respondents expressed a mostly negative attitude, and 3.2% — completely negative.
Another 6% were unable to give a definite answer.
“Attitudes toward Turkmenistan in Ukraine are in a ‘gray zone’ — citizens generally do not have deep knowledge about this country. That is why we are seeing such a high level of neutrality and very limited emotional polarization,” commented Maksim Urakin, founder of the Experts Club analytical center.
The presentation of the study is available at the link.
ACTIVE GROUP, DIPLOMACY, EXPERTS CLUB, Pozniy, SOCIOLOGY, URAKIN
