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Last week, the Verkhovna Rada approved the draft state budget for 2021.
The volume of expenses of the new budget is comparable to the current one. At the same time, the expected receipts to the treasury will be reduced by at least 247 billion hryvnia.
On the positive side, it is worth noting the

Former Deputy Minister of Economy of Ukraine Pavel Kukhta announced the growth of a hole in the Ukrainian budget.
In his words, unfinanced budget expenditures amount to tens of billions of hryvnias. Moreover, one third of them falls on protected expenses (the volume of which does not change with a

t the end of July, the Minister of Finance of Ukraine Serhiy Marchenko and the new head of the National Bank, Kirill Shevchenko, on behalf of the government, signed a memorandum with the European Union in Brussels on the allocation of macro-financial assistance to Ukraine in the amount of 1.2

This week, Mikheil Saakashvili’s candidacy for the post of Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine for reform is expected to be considered.
According to the former president of Georgia and the ex-governor of the Odessa region, the initiative came from President Vladimir Zelensky. "It is a great honor for me