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(James Brooke, author of Ukraine Financial News, offers this budget breakout):

  • Revenue highlights: $43 billion in tax receipts; $2.9 billion expected from International Monetary Fund and others; $1.5 billion in new Eurobonds. 
    Spending highlights$20 billion for pensions; $7.3 billion for medicine; $4.5 billion for road building; $3 billion for defense.

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From the archives: Remembering Georgiy Gongadze

On Sept. 16, 2000, police officers under the command of the Interior Ministry’s Oleksiy Pukach kidnapped and killed independent journalist Georgiy Gongadze. Despite an evidence trail that led straight to ex-President Leonid Kuchma and other top officials in his administration, none of them have ever been charged. Instead, prosecutors and police under Kuchma’s control stonewalled and obstructed investigation the investigation for years. The disinformation campaign was assisted by Kuchma-friendly media, including those TV stations owned by the president’s son-in-law, billionaire oligarch Victor Pinchuk.

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