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 Secrets of the capital’s treasury
The Kyiv City State Administration (KCSA) is in no hurry to make public the data on the 2010 city budget implementation. Even though the Kyiv City Council passed decision on December 30, 2010 to adopt the 2011 city budget, KCSA has not presented a report on the implementation of the 2010 budget as of January 25, 2011. There is only analytical information available in a brief report on the use of the city budget in 2010.
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 Circles of revolution
As a result of tactical successes in the turf war, the President’s team has found itself in a strategic dead-end. And the way-out can be really unexpected.
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 Parliamentary Information Analytical Newsletter. Expert Opinion. No 4 (20) (January 31 – February 06)
No high-profile decision can pass the Verkhovna Rada without a scandal. This time, everybody’s attention was on the voting for the Constitutional Amendments using duplicate cards. MP Volodymyr Aryev, who was on a business trip to the USA at that moment, showed his own voting card that he had with him and denied he had asked somebody else to vote on his behalf. However, this fact didn’t seem to shock either Ukrainian politicians, or society. Moreover, it has been said that the Party of the Regions is currently working on amendments to the Verkhovna Rada’s Rules of Procedure which would legalize the procedure of voting on behalf of the MPs absent from the session hall.
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 Parliamentary Information Analytical Newsletter No 3 (January 24 – 30, 2011)
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine will be convened for another session from February to July 2011. Members of Parliament plan to discuss and pass decision on 243 Bills submitted for consideration. The Verkhovna Rada committees are going to work on 620 Bills, which makes the total of 863 Bills. Another part of work is current issues which are going to arise during the session. But it’s not that hard to predict that even having reached the ‘lightning speed’ decision making rate, not hampered by such ‘unnecessary diversions’ as procedural rules, which was an ‘innovation’ of the last session, the parliament is not likely to fulfill the entire plan.
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 Viktor Pynzenyk: “We have never been partners with Russia”
With the year coming to its end, authorities have finally started implementing long-awaited ‘system reforms’. Authorities have decided to defuse a huge social outcry caused by the adoption of a new Tax Code by starting an administrative reform, shuffling central executive bodies and promising massive public staff reduction. But oppositional forces and independent experts won’t stop saying that the administrative reform has just scratched the surface and is not going to result in a higher quality of public government.
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