organization:cabinet of ministers

Criteria for new Corruption Prevention and Combating Bureau chief approved

The Cabinet of Ministers of Latvia has approved criteria for the new chief for CPCB (KNAB).
After current chief Jaroslavs Streļčenoks began his first term in 2011, many discussions and conflicts have found place within organization and the media. Streļčenoks has said he will apply for the next term.
Although Cabinet of Ministers approved the criteria for the next chief, one of NGO’s - ’’Delna’’ has raised concerns around criteria and the point system. They claim it favours too much the current chief.

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Ministru kabinets (MK) otrdien apstiprināja jauno Korupcijas novēršanas un apkarošanas biroja (KNAB) priekšnieka pretendentu atlases un vērtēšanas kārtību.

#Latvia #Latvija #Strelcenoks #KNAB

#Fact-checking #Saakashvili: Claims true – up to a point
▻http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/fact-checking-saakashvili-claims-true-up-to-a-point-397654.html

Odesa Oblast Governor Mikheil Saakashvili on Sept. 3 lashed out at Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk and the government he leads in an interview with Channel 5, owned by President Petro Poroshenko.

The former Georgian president accused the Cabinet of Ministers and Yatsenyuk personally of sabotaging reforms and lobbying for oligarchs’ interests.

In three more specific claims, Saakashvili accused the Cabinet of protecting the head of the State Aviation Service, whom he said had taken decisions in favor of billionaire Igor Kolomoisky’s Ukraine International Airlines. He then accused the government of blocking Economic Development and Trade Minister Aivaras Abromavicius’ attempts to dismiss the heads of two state enterprises. And last, he alleged the Cabinet had foiled his plans to reform Odesa’s notoriously corrupt customs service.

Yatsenyuk countered on Sept. 4 that Saakashvili’s accusations were unfounded and claimed that the Cabinet had approved the governor’s requests.

“We are all in one team here. I understand his emotions because he bears all the responsibility for Odesa Oblast,” Yatsenyuk said. “But it is inappropriate for an ex-president to bring unfounded charges against the government.”

The Kyiv Post decided to dig deeper into four of Saakashvili’s claims, and see if there was any substance to them.

Claim 1: The Yatsenyuk Cabinet has protected the head of the State Aviation Service.
[…]
The Verdict: True

Claim 2: The Cabinet is blocking attempts to dismiss the heads of some state enterprises.
[…]
The Verdict: True – technically. But while the head of at least one enterprise is indeed still in his job, the Kyiv Post couldn’t find proof that the reason was because of cronyism among Yatsenyuk’s political allies.

Claim 3: The Yatsenyuk Cabinet is foiling Saakashvili’s plans to reform Odesa’s customs service.
[…]
The Verdict: Somewhat true. While not sabotaging the plan per se, the Cabinet appears to be meddling by moving the goalposts, making it more difficult for the reform to achieve its aims.

Claim 4: Yatsenyuk is in the thrall of the nation’s biggest oligarchs.
[…]
The Verdict: Not proven. Direct ties between Ukraine’s oligarchs and politicians are hard to pin down.

Le gouvernement ukrainien consacre toute son énergie à faire avancer les réformes…

• Ministre de la santé (ex-géorgien) Kvitashvili
Quatrième mission d’enquête parlementaire en 6 mois : « ils auraient au moins pu attendre les conclusions de la précédente »

Poroshenko’s faction wants to oust Kvitashvili, Ukraine’s health minister ; he slams critics for financial self-interest
▻http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/poroshenkos-faction-calls-for-resignation-of-kvitashvili-ukraines-health-m

The parliamentary faction of President Petro Poroshenko’s bloc accuses Health Minister Alexander Kvitashvili of failing to conduct reforms and wants him to resign. The president’s bloc, with 144 members, is the largest faction among the 422 lawmakers in office.

Ihor Kononeko, the deputy head of the faction, announced the decision on June 30.

Kvitashvili, appointed six months ago, is outraged by the attempt to oust him, saying that the accusations against him are driven by the financial self-interests of those who would lose money if his changes come into law.

“Some don’t need reforms, some need what has been in place for the last 25 years – silent budget embezzlement,” Kvitashvili told a press conference the same day.

The minister said his team has succeeded in changing the whole system of state purchases of medicine, an historic source of corruption through non-competitive procurement, inflated prices and kickbacks.

He said he did this despite the lack of support in Parliament.

But he claims he has the support of the Cabinet of Ministers and Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, who earlier this month gave Kvitashvili three months to make improvements that Ukrainians would notice.

Yatsenyuk also granted a request by lawmakers to investigate him, the fourth such probe of his activities this year, Kvitashvili said. “They could have at least waited for the investigation results on July 10,” he said.

Minister: #Saakashvili will go from Georgian president to Odesa governor
▻http://www.kyivpost.com/content/kyiv-post-plus/minister-saakashvili-will-go-from-georgian-president-to-odesa-governor-389

In another move to curtail the influence of billionaire oligarch Igor Kolomoisky, President Petro Poroshenko is expected to name ex-Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili as governor of Odesa Oblast.

Ecology and Natural Resources Minister Ihor Shevchenko said in a Facebook post on May 29 that the Cabinet of Ministers recommended the appointment of Saakashvili to the strategic oblast. Saakashvili has been a top adviser to Poroshenko.

“The final decision is up to the president of Ukraine, as stipulated by the Constitution,” Shevchenko wrote. There was no official announcement from the president’s website late on May 29.

Shevchenko told the Kyiv Post that Saakashvili would be a good appointment “in any place, because he is a meritocrat” and that the change is in the best interests of Ukraine.

Odesa Oblast is one of Ukraine’s most difficult regions because of its history of corruption as well as its strategic location as the top Black Sea port, no doubt coveted by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

#Odessa

Parliamentary commission says it has no evidence tying Yatsenyuk to corruption
▻http://www.kyivpost.com/content/politics/parliamentary-commission-says-it-has-no-evidence-tying-yatsenyuk-to-corrup

Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk and his Cabinet of Ministers got a clean bill of health — of sorts — from a parliamentary commission, which said on May 15 that it could find no evidence of the involvement of top officials in alleged embezzlement schemes.

The group was created after the ex-hjead of the State Financial Inspection of Ukraine Mykola Gordienko accused current and former officials of stealing Hr 7.5 billion.

Yatsenyuk fired Gordienko in early April and ordered an investigation into the State Financial Inspection. The agency tracks public expenses.

Gordienko accused Yatenyuk and his Cabinet of Ministers of having knowledge of embezzlement schemes of at least Hr 3.5 billion ($150 million). Gordienko asked the prosecutor general to investigate.

On May 15, Boryslav Bereza, an independent lawmaker who heads the commission, says the findings of the commission didn’t reveal “Yatsenyuk’s direct involvement” in corrupt schemes.

But Bereza also said that the commission was denied access to all the documents needed for investigation and accused the general prosecutor of “sabotaging” their work, noting that prosecutors “didn’t show up at the commission’s meetings.”

Bereza added that General Prosecutor Viktor Shokin didn’t provide the results of his investigation into Gordienko’s findings.

Ben non, on n’a pas de preuve de corruption du gouvernement.
En fait, on n’a rien. D’ailleurs, on ne nous a donné accès à rien.

Wartime Leadership Troika
▻http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/wartime-leadership-troika-373389.html

#Ukraine will have to live with its caretaker government until at least Dec. 2, after the new parliamentary coalition failed to agree on a new Cabinet of Ministers this week.

The first session of the new parliament closed on Nov. 27 with Arseniy Yatsenyk’s reappointment as prime minister and creation of a ruling coalition of five pro-European parties. It is now expected to nominate government ministerial candidates, but the debate around personalities has been so heated that Oleksandr Turchynov, leader of President Petro Poroshenko’s faction in parliament, suggested that the new prime minister will be the only one working in the Cabinet.

Toujours pas de fumée blanche…

Semerak : Politics involved in cyclic power cutoffs in Ukraine
▻http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/semerak-politics-involved-in-cyclic-power-cutoffs-in-ukraine-366836.html

Cyclic power cutoffs in Kyiv region were unauthorized and they are not linked to the needs of regulating the balance of power in the country, and now competent agencies are investigating into this, minister of the Cabinet of Ministers Ostap Semerak has said.

(intégralité de la brève…)

Antonov toujours en crise…

Antonov CEO clings to job as crisis deepens at aircraft firm
▻http://www.kyivpost.com/content/business/antonov-ceo-clings-to-job-as-crisis-deepens-at-aircraft-firm-362444.html

On Aug. 4, employees of Antonov, a state-run aircraft engineering firm, staged a protest near its headquarters on Kyiv’s Tupoleva Street after the government dismissed company president Dmytro Kiva on May 26.

Kiva was replaced with Sergiy Merenkov, a former Antonov employee and principal expert on the An-140 cargo and passenger model.The decision came from the Industrial Policy Ministry, a unit within the Cabinet of Ministers that is currently being merged with the Economy Ministry.

On Aug. 1, Merenkov tried entering the company’s corner office, but security guards didn’t let him in.

Kiva a bien verrouillé son affaire…

“Kiva has muddled three (executive) positions at Antonov – general director, president and chief constructing engineer – occupying all of them so it would be impossible to dismiss him. He made the management system extremely complicated,” a Cabinet member told the Kyiv Post, requesting anonymity because he is not authorized to speak publicly on the issue.

Kiva, whose son Oleksandr Kiva is his deputy, retained Roman Marchenko, a senior partner at Ilyashev & Partners law firm, to help him stay in office.

Il a le soutien du collectif de travail.

Et certaines des critiques des libéraux modernisateurs sont carabinées…

Ilia Kenigshtein, senior partner at Hybrid Capital, a venture fund, has often criticized the generation of Soviet-era managers who still run companies today, referring to them as “red directors.”

“I’m glad that epoch of inarticulate collective farm managers is coming an end in the big-money sector. They’ve never changed their Soviet attitude, they’ve always been wearing rural-style Brioni suits and black patent leather shoes with white socks and clap (their hands) during private concerts of Russian pop-music star Philip Kirkorov,” he says.

Rendez-vous compte !

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Brioni Suits | Bond Lifestyle
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Brioni suits are worn by Pierce Brosnan in all of his Bond movies and by Daniel Craig in Casino Royale. Brioni, a famous Italian bespoke house, was introduced to Bond by costume designer Lindy Hemming in the movie GoldenEye. In the book Dressed to Kill - James Bond The Suited Hero, Lindy Hemming explains that she wanted a company capable of tailoring in the Savile Row manner, and - because of GoldenEye’s tight shooting schedule - could produce a lot of suits very quickly. She also wanted something that that was sheer luxury, unmistakably synonymous with expensiveness. In GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World is Not Enough and Die Another Day, Bond wears Brioni suits, often combined with a Turnbull & Asser or Sulka tie and Church’s shoes.

After the Brosnan Bond era, Daniel Craig continued the new Brioni tradition in Casino Royale. Craig wore a charcoal gray Brioni suit, at the London press conference announcing his role of Bond in Casino Royale, and in the movie he wears Brioni as well.

Voici donc Kiva (à g.) en costume de directeur de kolkhoze.

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Pays baltes : quelques projets de coopération dans le domaine de l’énergie et du transport

The Cabinet of Ministers fo the Republic of Latvia : Conclusions of the Baltic Prime Ministers’ informal meeting

▻http://www.mk.gov.lv/en/aktuali/zinas/2013/may/300513-mp-01

Conclusions of the Baltic Prime Ministers’ informal meeting
State Chancellery

30.05.2013

The Prime Minister of Estonia Mr. Andrus Ansip, the Prime Minister of Latvia Mr. Valdis Dombrovskis and the Prime Minister of Lithuania Mr. Algirdas Butkevičius have met on May 30 in Jūrmala, Latvia. The Prime Ministers discussed the key issues of regional energy and transport projects, Baltic Council of Ministers’ reform and questions concerning joint external economic cooperation of the three Baltic countries, as well as celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Baltic Way.

#pays_baltes #lettonie #estonie #lituanie