The volume of services rendered by Ukrainian enterprises in January-March 2020 amounted to UAH 226.97 billion, which is 5.5% more in comparable prices than in the same period in 2019 (UAH 215.2 billion), the State Statistics Service has reported.
According to the report, the volume of services sold to the population accounted for 23.1% of the total volume of services sold.
The State Statistics Service recalled that in the first quarter of 2019, the volume of services provided by Ukrainian enterprises increased by 2.7%, in the second quarter by 3.5%, in the third quarter by 6.2%, and in the fourth quarter by 0.2%.
The Ministry of Health of Ukraine has created a separate unit, whose task will be the transplantation and treatment of Ukrainian patients abroad, the press service of the Ministry of Health reported on the Telegram channel.
“I want the number of Ukrainian patients who are being treated abroad to constantly decrease. I want them to be treated in Ukraine, to develop transplantation in Ukraine. We have everything for this. The main thing is that we have specialists who can transplant. We just need to create a certain system that would allow this to be done in Ukraine. We are doing this now,” Minister of Health Maksym Stepanov said at a daily briefing.
The Ukrainian Embassy in the United States is gradually restoring the reception of citizens, it will be carried out exclusively by appointment, the Ukrainian diplomatic mission said.
“We inform that from June 9, 2020, the Embassy is gradually restoring the reception of visitors on consular issues,” the Embassy said on its Facebook page on Friday evening.
Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has set up an ad hoc panel on protection of the investors’ rights.
A total of 319 MPs voted for this resolution at its plenary meeting on Friday.
According to an explanatory note, setting up of the commission will promote conditions for the investment activity in Ukraine and protection of rights and freedoms of the investors.
Member of the Servant of the People faction Halyna Yanchenko became head of the panel, Holos faction member Yaroslav Zhelezniak became her deputy. Eleven MPs make up the panel.
The local election campaign has begun and the regional elites started investing in headquarters, advertising and PR campaigns. The local elites used the situation with the quarantine and poor coordination of events in the top-down system for self-promotion before the elections due on October 25, 2020, political technologist Kyrylo Molchanov, who is also an expert at the Ukrainian Institute of Politics, said.
In the second program “Expert Kitchen” on the Expert Club YouTube channel, Molchanov made assessment of the incumbent mayors’ chances to be re-elected for a new tenure at the upcoming elections.
The expert said that Hennadiy Kernes in Kharkiv, Vitali Klitschko in Kyiv and Hennadiy Trukhanov in Odesa have the highest chances to stay on their posts. He also noted that one should expect the most interesting election campaigns in Dnipro and Lviv, where Andriy Sadovy has lost his positions in recent years.
Speaking about prospects of parties, the expert said that some political forces continue dominating in certain regions where they used to be popular. The main struggle will take place between the Opposition Platform – For Life and the Servant of the People in southeastern Ukraine, between the Servant of the People and Batkivschyna in central regions, and the so-called pro-European and nationalist forces in western Ukraine.
According to Molchanov, the ruling party in general will fail to repeat the success of its previous campaigns as its popularity continues declining. Therefore, the Servant of the People will have to form coalitions with other parties in regions, which may result into unexpected political consequences both in Ukraine’s regions and, hence, in the central government.
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