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well, now i'm not alone in the studio anymore, my colleague oleksandr morshchevka is next to me, hello, which means that now it's about money and the economy during the war. i also welcome the audience, i will tell you directly about energy, international aid, as well as where money can be found in local budgets, and it may still be there, about this in detail in a moment. i'm oleksandr morchenko, congratulations, this is a column about money during the war, we keep our finger on the pulse of international aid, we are waiting for this money, but a procedure is a procedure. the united states of america is getting closer every day to passing aid funding to our country. this was stated by the leader of the democratic majority in the senate, chuck schumer. according to the politician, now negotiators from both sides are working hard to approve one more. round of assistance to our state by completing an additional package of national security.

let me remind you that the republicans in the us congress continue to block the initiative, which contains more than 60 billion dollars in aid to ukraine, demand that democrats and the biden administration first implement immigration reform. well, by the way, aid from the european union is also being delayed. well, let's keep an eye on it. but hacker interventions were experienced today. state-owned companies, in particular one of naftogaz's data centers , also reported a failure in it systems to ukrposhta. branches only issued parcels, accepted payments, and restored other services. there were problems in the state transport safety service ukrtranspezpeka. there, they reported a technical failure in the work of the shlyah and information system official website. hackers also attacked the servers of the kyiv city electric railway today, ukrzaliznytsia reported. and all categories of internally displaced persons will be extended the current terms of social benefits until

march 1 this year, minister of social policy oksana zholnovich said. a month of such funding, says the government official, requires more than uah 6 billion, which is quite a significant amount. however, says oksana zholnovich, the money was found in the reserves and will be ready for all citizens within the limits of the closing of the winter period. pay out money, however, pensioners who receive more than uah 9.44 will not receive idp assistance. indeed, let me remind you that both this social payment and pension payments depend again on international aid, which should soon arrive in the coffers of the state. let's go further. ukraine denies the words of slovak prime minister robert fico about further transportation of russian gas through its territory. after a meeting with the head

of our cabinet, denys shmygal, a slovak government official announced on facebook that - i quote: it happened. the agreement that the transit of russian gas through ukraine is likely to continue, and this is great news for slovaks. let me remind you that the supply of fuel from the aggressor country must be completed by the end of the year. our cabinet refutes fiitso's words, according to the bloomberg agency, our state is not going to continue the contract for the transit of enemy fuel. ukraine will start building new nuclear reactors to compensate for the lost capacity, it is reported. minister of energy of ukraine herman galushchenko. four reactors will be built at the khmelnytskyi nuclear power plant. the project will be activated sometime in summer or autumn. however, two units will be based on russian-made equipment, which ukraine wants to import from bulgaria. the other two will use western technologies of the manufacturer westenhouse. well

, we will continue to talk about finding money through local budgets. in particular, according to the results. in 2023 , the annual ranking of the cities of transparent sales was headed by several such towns of zolotonosha of the cherkasy region, balta in odesa region, and here, of course , the capital was in the top 3. well, how can you get funds to communities in general, let's talk about it with the guest who joins our conversation, serhiy but, the head of prozoroprodaza na vyzak. good evening. good evening. mr. sergey, what kind of rating is this? you and how it was determined, then share with the communities, how can you earn money during the war? of course, i will tell you everything, so this is our annual rating, every year we issue a rating of the efficiency of cities and communities from the point of view of management and the efficiency of the sale of

communal property, since in the system of transparent sales, this direction is... ah, it is quite important, both in terms of the volume of trades and the number of auctions themselves, in terms of the number of participants who come to the auctions, so every year, as part of summing up the overall results, we make such a rating, that is, the winners you already announced before, i will add that more than 300 places were involved in this ranking this year, these are the cities. who sell or lease property through the system of transparent sales, and accordingly according to a combination of several criteria, at the end of the year we determine those who are actually the most effective and skilled in this. mr. serhiy

, is there a demand now during a full-scale invasion, especially among businesses, including public organizations, to... take this asset, which in fact is often lying dead in communities, whether to lease it or buy it altogether to create some small processing enterprises? tell me in detail? absolutely is, and that's really the key word that you mentioned, that very often these objects or this property, it really lies as such dead bottom, in other words, it does not bring any... benefit to the local community, its population, but to people, to business, that is why there is really a demand, because, even in conditions of war, even in conditions of crisis, business, entrepreneurs, they need to develop , they need to start a business, they need to scale, and we have cities, and in

our rating, in particular, and... participants in the transparent sales system from very different regions, that is, conditionally both from safe regions, let's say, closer to the western border, and in the regions relatively dangerous, that's why there is a demand, business is buying, and here we have at least two positive points, well, first of all, it is really through implementation. of this, let's call it, not very necessary property, the community receives money, business, accordingly, receives a resource, receives property in order to conduct. economic activity, and this includes jobs, this is taxes, this, again, is about programs for infrastructure, security, humanitarian

issues, etc. mr. serhiy, but it is clear that in order to appear on prozoro sales, a lot of work precedes this, in particular employees, from the communities, how much an information campaign is needed now, certain that these towns join yours. rating and really raised maybe those assets that can now be sold, it is possible to attract money to the local treasury in this way, and simply find an effective owner, or that real estate, or that plot of land, well, any advice? absolutely yes, it is necessary, an information company is needed, awareness is needed, and at the level of those in power, who are the owners of these. the owner, well, or they manage this property, or at the level of themselves communities, because the local residents themselves can

know that what they have somewhere in the city or town, let's say, is abandoned or has not been happening for a long time, and this is precisely why we, as a joint-stock company , transparently cooperate with communities, we... have already conducted, we, we regularly conduct such educational promotional campaigns at the regional level in order to really involve organizers in the system, in order for local businesses to have interest and , accordingly, come to auctions and actually buy this property , so it is very important to do such information. companies, plus it is very important that officials and executors on the ground understand , in fact, how much of this property they have, since this can also be a problem of the lack

of basic inventory information, and all this is put together in such a certain process that ultimately allows the property to be sold and get money. thank you for the conversation, the main thing here is really, i support you, the inventory. because i am sure that many communities sometimes do not even know that there is an asset that can directly benefit the specific finances of one or another community thank you, serhii but, the head of prozoroprodaza, was in touch, well, i will also end my column on this, but a big broadcast is going on, there will be more, watch us. indeed, the ukrainian artistic community is worried about the next helm of chibin, but

his name is pietrangelo butafouka, and if you read the press, there are a lot of headlines in which he is either mildly called right-wing, ultra-right, or outright fascist, well, a colleague asked the press -conferences with the temporary acting minister of culture and information policy of rostislav karandeev, as well as taras shevchenko, who is the commissioner of the pavilion, and how are they preparing in general for communication with such a person, well , they said that they are not preparing yet, well, let's see, they say, he will speak, and already we will react, well, to the event that will take place, to the words that will be said, well, we'll see, but my colleagues and i somehow got the impression that... they probably heard about this pietrangel botofoka only today, but these are just our guesses, but now we will talk specifically about this pavilion at the 60th biennial with, well, actually with

the curator victoria bovykina, victoria, good afternoon, and first tell us about this miscommunication with the ministry, because we also discussed earlier that you cannot to reach them somehow, but finally somehow it happened. tell me how you did find a common language, thank you for the question and thank you for covering the previous process, in fact, the establishment of communication depends more on the representatives of the ministry of culture and information policy, because firstly, they are the main organizer of the biennial in ukraine, due to the requirements of the biennial such a structure of national pavilions, secondly, our entire team and artists and curators. the team and the production team are completely open to communication, we communicate with a lot of organizations, colleagues who help us, and of course we... at the very

beginning, we were ready first of all to communicate with the ministry, as the main organizer, so this is definitely a question it is better to ask the commissioner or representatives ministries, how do they plan to organize this work, they show a desire to take a greater part in the organization of bijnali, i hope that this will happen, well, i also hope, tell me again, remind me, you asked for... uah 5 million for the organization, how much was given to you and, actually, tell our viewers about the project itself and about the biennial, why it is so important for us, especially now, because in our information space there is not as much talk about biennials as, for example , about the oscars, unfortunately, we hope that by with your help we will correct this situation, because the venice biennale is the largest art event in the world, the largest art

festival, the oldest. it has an extremely large audience and most importantly, it has an extremely large attention of all the world media, and biennales are visited not only by the art community, there are curators or artists, various diplomatic missions, politicians, businessmen, decision-makers in various countries, they also attend this event because it is prestigious, large-scale, and represents many different countries, therefore for ukraine and... previously, but especially today, during the full-scale invasion, this platform is one of the key events in the life of ukrainian culture, because this platform allows us to speak and be heard, and our project of weaving the world, it is in many works we we talk about, we talk about the war, about the people who left ukraine because of the full-scale invasion, and we

talk. in general, and about ukraine and ukrainian society, but mainly, of course, we are talking about the war, because we have such circumstances, and that is, for us, it the opportunity to talk about the war , to talk to a very large audience, and we know that we will hear because that's how the biennale works, and we will be among the people that journalists will come to, so we don't want to miss this opportunity, and we want to just to remind as many people as possible. that there is ukraine, that despite the war, we are working, but we still have a war, and we still need the help and attention of the entire world community. thank you, victoria, well, i will remind our viewers once again that this cultural representation is cultural diplomacy, these words have become very widely used, it is extremely, it is extremely important that the state supports all this, so far we see that our institutions that

deal with... culture do not always react properly, there are certain conflicts, but now we are observing a conflict as well as cinematographers from state cinema, but i still hope that the biennale itself will take place as it should take place, and our cultural representation will also be at a high level. let me remind you that the 60th biennial will start on april 20 and will last until november 24. well, here it is situation. yesterday we asked, paraphrasing our poet, where are you cats of my people. we have to ask where natalka didenko's kittens are, she is in touch with our studio. yes, natalya, again without cats, congratulations, congratulations to roman, it's brilliant, of course, just knocked me out of a serious mood. i want to say right

away that... there will be cats, but later and in such a somewhat interesting way, it will all be literally in a moment, i will start our meeting today together with cats, but not mine, whose names are tatyanka and tarasyky, some of them have already knows but since they are still small, lively and very nimble, i, unfortunately, cannot involve them in the live broadcast, they are present, they are, but still i hope that over time they will definitely join the live broadcasts on the channel espresso. but since we have already talked about cats, i would like to start our meeting today with poems about winter, seasonal poems, everything corresponds to our concept, but romance and touching.