[000:00:00;00] governance and about community residents, this is one part, there is another part, there is already a decision of the government and government bodies about the expropriation of forest land plots . in addition, the communities received powers in the tax sphere , where communities were deprived of the opportunity to finance local budgets. for the first time in many years , local self-governments took away the educational subvention in the remains of the educational subvention, although this is a devolved authority that the state is obliged to finance in full, that is, in addition to the fact that today local self-government, like all ukrainians, is fighting an aggressor from the outside. unfortunately, we have to find pennies in

order to ensure the lives of people here inside, this is what concerns the decisions of the central government . in addition, we we have a whole set of decisions on the introduction of military administrations that automatically cancel the work of local self-government, this is the second direction and there is a third - this is a set of e-e court decisions, protocols on administrative offenses law enforcement officers for reasons that are quite strange in terms of the powers of local self-government. well, of course . and the most vivid and well-known example is chernihiv, mrs. oksano. you are in the association of cities of ukraine . such negative moments that cast a certain shadow on our desire for real european integration. and you know, we can talk

about the international partners of our positions, but it is very gratifying that decentralization is recognized by absolutely everyone at all levels, precisely effective, the most effective reform of the e-e in recent years, and we are not only talking about three years, we are talking about probably since the 14th year, and everyone is talking about the fact that we restrained russia at the beginning of last year precisely because the communities were strong and the communities understood what should they do and defended themselves on the spot, this is one part, the other part, we had a tweet before christmas on december 24 about what they are for decentralization when we shouted and rang all the bells and all the bells that we

cannot 56- 55 run when we asked the president was invited and then he actually sits down and reminded himself that they are also in favor of decentralization and in the plan of action for 2023 , the group of ambassadors for reforms in ukraine is also exactly the size of decentralization, just there, two against , the powers of local self-government bodies must be respected, what is our situation now in the cities, er, all the information that is available to you, the associations of cities of ukraine have laid out, communicate with the mayors , what are their biggest problems now? because it is necessary to finance education, and residents do not ask whether the state has given funds or not that it was obliged to give, they ask

the mayor and the deputies of the city councils how they will work. provision of heat because the state did not fulfill its obligation defined again by the state in the law , they did not provide and do not provide compensation in tariffs to heat-generating enterprises, and the tariffs of the city from the community are kept and have not been raised in the heating season and the difference was placed on them today, and naftogaz is now simply deducting funds without dispute, in this way it spins utility companies, this is a huge problem for all of ukraine and ukraine is, and it can be even more, this is the second question, there is a question when in a number of regions today, protocols are drawn up on administrative violations from any what are the grounds for representatives of local self-government , for example, even for non-fulfilment of the draft , to draw up protocols in chernivtsi region in relation to the heads of communities, although this is precisely

the authority, and they are not drawn up about it powers protocols and what is a protocol protocols where to the court and today we unfortunately have examples when courts make decisions that are completely far from the code on administrative offenses and who makes the protocol protocol as far as i understand it is composed by representatives of the police but i could be wrong but what well more 10 protocols were drawn up only in the night of chernivtsi region for non-fulfillment of mobilization tasks on heads of communities, this is an unequivocal fact. chernivtsi region, yes, chernivtsi region has more than 10 protocols. direct management by the heads of communities when they can be kept on the hook through law enforcement agencies and courts. unfortunately, oksana , just a minute, i wanted to talk a little about

the restoration of cities now, and in poland, our mayors are currently holding forums on how to rebuild destroyed cities for billions . losses, talk about it now or talk about it after the victory at the same time and help the armed forces to do everything possible for victory and provide people with the opportunity to live in ukraine so that they live and return to ukraine and the third prepare for reconstruction after the victory. all this must be done. at the same time, we are delaying today. thank you for remembering warsaw, because the association of cities of ukraine represents a large delegation of several tens of communities representing specific projects from for investors, it is not for which people are ready to invest and receive investments, to create conditions for

the united states, what investors require transparent transparent investments, that is why we are acquiring oksana , so please collect information there from the mayors, ask what is interesting to whom we promised that we will definitely tell about this in the self-government program oksana prodan. thank you for your participation. advisor to the head of the association of ukrainian cities on local self-government. it is about him that we are talking about in this program. my name is nevelychka. thank you for your interest . broadcast at eight in the morning on weekdays, if you watch us on the internet, do not forget to like it, send the link to your friends, family, like us more people will see us, the loudest news is yesterday's news in the office one of the largest ukrainian it companies was raided, and the home of its founder oleksandr kosovan was also searched. also , the minister of digital transformation, mykhailo fedorov, said that he was ashamed of the law enforcement officers who

stopped the company's work . the head of the servant of the people faction, david arahamiya , was outraged by the raids . ha of land in the kyiv region where the company planned to build a recreation complex, according to the investigation, officials illegally changed the purpose of the land plots and transferred these land plots of the company carried out illegal construction there, smart, safe, and most importantly, energy-saving, that's what the people of vinnytsia say about their house after creating a condominium , how it all works, let's see in our story. and this lady galina lives in this house for 22 years, she says she remembers the times well management of zheka, when mittens, shovels, buckets and many unnecessary materials were written off at the expense of the house, and with the creation of an association of co-owners of an apartment building, the situation has changed

, now the residents themselves decide what to spend on funds, entrance, we are happy to come to our place, and we have flowers, and everyone takes care and looks and waters the walls , the whitewashed panels , etc. the pipes were changed and the electricity was done, and so that there was no excess, the lights were turned on and everything was in order, the residents of the house say that after creating the condominium, the first thing they did was replace the old wooden structures with modern energy-saving metal-plastic windows, and they also installed a cathode station that signals in in the event of a gas leak and a water heating control system that regulates the temperature comes here if the frost is 70%.

if the weather how is it going today, as far as i can see, it is 60 degrees, the water is standing, you can see what they drive around the house, water and sensors , these are savings. pay less for heating at the expense of the city , they made a major repair of the roof, sewerage system and elevator in the house, replaced the risers, but even that is not all replaced completely, all the wiring in our house was aluminum, so that here it is already completely the second wire, god forbid, i’m looking at something, it instantly disconnects, but it doesn’t light up in the whole

house , the electricity has been replaced, it’s expensive , i can’t. and pictures, and above the boxes is an information stand about the movement of funds of the condominium. this is where did the money go? it just came and where did everything go? no thank you for the maintenance of the house and the condominium fund, the residents took care of it and set up a shelter for it on the basement floor, they brought water to the bathroom, they made an emergency exit , they thought of an alternative means of heating , she is bigger so we are going to remove

it and put it here. есть прожектор есть ети свечи вся заготовлены during the past year in vinnytsia, 34 new condominiums were created, as of today, almost half of the multi-apartment housing stock in the city has this type of management, and the very first association of owners of multi-apartment buildings appeared in the regional center in 1996 anastasia holoshivets viktoriya voroshchak from vinnytsia for the espresso tv channel well, now let's talk with the leading researcher of the institute of economic research and political consultations oleksandra bitley about the results of january ms. oleksandra greetings good day so your institute is now every month conducts such economic summaries according to the main criteria about prices and trade, well, in fact, according to all the main characteristics that

characterize our economy but is it possible judging by the results of january or january, it is still such a month that differs from many other holidays . well, many ukrainians still celebrate christmas in january, what can be said about january 2023, is it somehow different from months in other years , january is really not indicative during of the year because, as you said, the holidays and everything else, but at the same time, for this time, january is indicative for us because it all the same helps to understand how much business, for example, overcomes problems with access to electricity , how much business continues to work, and so on, that is this year, father christmas was less, and therefore it is very important to look at all this, and it is important to look at the same price dynamics, and what makes this january unique is, for example, the fact that our rural

agricultural enterprise continued to very actively collect corn, unfortunately. last year, they could not collect corn from for various reasons, one of these reasons is the unsatisfactory financial condition, that is, there was no money, another reason was probably that there was no place to store corn, since even the previous grain was not exported, so there were delays and this year is a unique year, in january a lot of grain was harvested and also the data shows that in february grain continued to be harvested, that is corn, that is , corn is harvested in january and february, this is the uniqueness of this january, but it is not taken into account in the indicators of agricultural production and gdp for january precisely because of the tautology of the state statistics, the indicators of january and may inclusively do not include the indicators of crop production, well, it is very strange, it is due to seasonality. as far as i understand

, uh, that is, there is a correspondence that we need to change the methodology a little bit. we looked at eurostat's methodology. it is quite complicated, but they still take into account the thunderstorm that is gathering right now, because the test is necessary, why change the methodology because more and more crop production is also done in greenhouses, if we are talking about vegetables it changes, that is, for example, in the southern territories, we are insulted to understand several times a year now, and it all affects the indicators, and therefore the state will probably have to exchange the methodology, this is the problem, i think so well, production is definitely fixed, and now i read your report and it says that we are not observing production growth , but we are observing a slowdown in the rate of decline in production, not in all sectors, not in all industries, but by too much an estimate, the rates of decline in other industries have slowed down , in particular, it is about construction, for example

and trade, but here it should be noted that this is partly due to the uniqueness of january , when the statistical base is smaller. that is, we always build less in january, and therefore the fall has slowed down a little. that is, this does not mean that the situation has improved, unfortunately, but the situation has worsened, for example, in transport, thanks to the fact that the russians somewhat sabotaged and blocked inspections at sea ports , as a result , 5.1 million tons of grain were transported through sea ports, not 5.1 million tons, as in december, but 4 million tons in january only and for by and large, this was precisely the result of the fact that russia basically blocks our export of grain, and in principle, grain exports by rail and road transport have slowed down somewhat, when we talk about rail transport , on the other hand, in january, the volumes increased somewhat

of metallurgy exports, and this meant that, in principle, metallurgy began to recover a little, we are talking about iron ore , that is, we have several months. on the polish side, you mentioned that january is important for us in order to see how well the electricity supply has recovered. it seems to me that such a court of consumers themselves and observations that electricity became more in january, i'm not talking about february, but in january, in january , lights were turned off, well, at least in my house, they turned off less. but i understand that this can be very subjective, because different regions have different situations, what do they show data across the country as a whole did the consumption increase or did it get better with the supply of electricity if we are talking

about january the situation improved a little then and the key tests that show and the survey of the institute in the future business used various means in order to continue to work and this continued to purchase electric generators, various batteries, accumulators were purchased and work schedules were changed , at the same time the situation improved even more in february. we received several gas power plants of good power , as a result, it helps to solve the problem with the shortage of electricity and just in time already the situation has improved more , that's why all these mobile installations, e.e. , gas electric power plants and so on, they were provided to us free of charge or sometimes for money by our international partners

because it actually helps to overcome the deficit, and one more moment the government introduced permits guaranteed by ska and contracts to supply electricity to the company that imports it. that is, this is another means of leveling out some of the deficit of electricity produced in ukraine . recently they launched two more energy-pro-blocks at the nuclear power station, this also helps, that is, in principle, we have a plus good weather - this is the production of electricity by solar power plants , that is, such a complex, let's say such measures it helped us overcome some of the shortage of electricity, but kornergo goes on to say that it just really depends on the region, this is such a vivid illustration of this theory of small things that if you take many small steps in the right direction, you will still achieve your goal goal and we are observing it directly now in electricity and i would like to point out, i apologize for interrupting, that we see

from russia's attacks on us and the ppu in principle very successfully overcomes all these drones and missiles, and therefore we owe a lot here, and also very much to our zno and there is no doubt that the influence of the armed forces on the economy is colossal, and the state of the ukrainian economy actually depends on how the armed forces beats the enemy. such a remark that in general or assessed last year in this report that the structure of foreign trade has changed, the structure of trade turnover has changed significantly in the past year, the certificates as taken from us , unfortunately, the export of grain has fallen, and this is very bad for us because, as a result, even we are currently collecting some corn, there is a question as to whether there will be a place to store it, although in principle we collect less than we export, it is already very good, but the issue of grain export is a question of the financial stability of our general

companies, and it is very important for them to sow the fields on time next year, already in the spring since they planted significantly less winter crops than they planted last year, i.e. we have a very big disadvantage and i would like to plant more spring crops, after all, in order to compensate for these losses, therefore, exports are very important for agriculture. well, in general , for the economy, for reserves and so on. when we talk about imports, it decreased somewhat in january, but there are no such detailed data. i did not look. what exactly happened, but it decreased. and why did we expertly analyze last year, there was a very significant change in our trade balance, specifically in relation to the balance of trade in services, e.e. we have increased imports, e.e., a cut in the import of services, especially travel services, because there is a very large number

of migrants with different estimates, it is 4-8 million. in fact, he does not know what the number of migrants is, they spend money abroad and according to the methodology of the balance of payments, etc. these funds are recorded in the import of services, because this kostya spends abroad and not in ukraine, as a result, this, in principle, makes the balance of trade negative services, but at the same time, we have a positive current account due to, again, transfers from abroad from the receipt of grants due to international partners. the currency that leaves the country and enters the country and in general er and here we are in the plus , and we are talking about the er balance of goods and the balance of money, that is, part of the transfer occurs due to the fact that goods go back and forth

we pay for them, and part of the flow is from us, the money comes here, or we return the money abroad. well, actually, the money comes here. i understand that this is about supporting the ukrainian budget, we are foreign donors, were there any noticeable transfers in january from border that supports our budget in general, how does he feel, it is about how much money external partners help us with in ukraine, in january we received 1 billion dollars from the united states in the form of a grant. that means that we will never have to return this money, and so we received 3 billion euros from the european union is a loan, but it is very preferential, it is given to the state for 35 years. we have to start paying it only after 10 years, and we do not pay interest on it if we do our homework on the reforms that we prescribed in the memorandum

in other words, this is a joint statement of our government and the european commission about what we should do, if we say it, it helped a lot and supported the budget in january , as a result, the government was able to finance its main expenses, and the revenues also, in principle , felt more or less normal given the state of the economy that we have , the personal income tax from now on was higher than last year due to the fact that large payments go to the military, not only because of the increase in their payments, but very of a large number of soldiers now, but at the same time, income from value-added tax on imports has decreased significantly, precisely due to the fact that imports are falling and it is still much less at this level than last year, which was indicative of this year's budget in january this is a record vat refund of 19.3 billion

e-e hryvnias, this is really a record, especially considering last year, when in some months the government did not have kostiv for reimbursement, again from warehousing, this means that the business receives liquidity in order to carry out its activities, and first of all, we are again talking about agricultural enterprises, could you explain this and the transformation to our country in foreign currency, and yet our budget is in hryvnia, how is this foreign currency transformed into hryvnia and does it affect our gold and currency reserves or does this currency then go to our in our treasury but i don't know if it's not the treasury the treasury after all the budget yes well in our reserves yes reserves this trabank is happening er the government for to get the government has a special foreign currency account in the national bank of ukraine, and as a result, these funds go to this account

and they are immediately credited to the international reserves as well . from this account to pay your foreign currency accounts. let's say that when we had payments on foreign debt, for example, these are just payments on foreign debt, or the government can buy something imported , for example, again, the same, er, defense various purchases can be imported. that is, we receive far from all defense in the form of gifts from our international partners, part of it is bought by us, part of it is bought abroad, as a result , the payments for these purchases are made from this account, and we do not receive them in hryvnias in return if the government needs hryvnias in order to make calculations, the national bank directly to the government, let's say it converts these funds into hryvnias and the unified treasury account from the national bank goes

exactly in hryvnias, and the euro dollars that were on the government's account goes to the account of the national bank, and this part also remains part of the international reserves of the national bank. and just in time, we see an increase in international reserves to 29 e-e and 9 billion. and this is the level of last year. that is, we have already returned to the level of last year precisely for the account of international support because in january there were very large interventions of the national bank on the foreign exchange market when the national bank sold currency in order to obtain a fixed exchange rate and e-e, respectively according to the national bank, he sold 3 billion dollars last month to support the exchange rate. that is, our security cushion in the currency has reached the size it was in january 2022 , that is, before the russian invasion. thank you

, ms. oleksandr, for the explanation. we did not have time to talk about prices. i send all our readers to read your macroeconomic report for january on the website of the institute of economic research. oleksandra petli, a leading nau employee of the institute of economic research, was with us and of political consultations and the head of many projects at this institute. and i'm andriy yenitsky, the host of economics programs on the e-e tv channel espresso. watch us tomorrow at 8:00 a.m. live on the air together we will win cheer for dnipro-1 and shakhtar in the eurocups

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