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1. participates in Munich Security Conference 2. Yulia Tymoshenko: No compromise with the enemy on the issue of ending the war 3. Interview with DW in Munich: Yulia Tymoshenko: heading for 'reset' of

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1. YULIA TYMOSHENKO PARTICIPATES prospects for the economic development IN MUNICH SECURITY CONFERENCE of our country, and cooperation between On 15-16 February Batkivshchyna Party Ukraine and the IMF. Leader Yulia Tymoshenko together with Yulia Tymoshenko stressed “the need to Deputy Head of Batkivshchyna and continue cooperation with the IMF taking Chairman of the into account the real situation in the Committee on Human Rights Hryhoriy economy and social sphere, so that the Nemyria participated in the Munich issues of the macro-financial stability and Security Conference. social cohesion, and the living standards In the framework of conference events, of Ukrainian citizens were balanced rather Yulia Tymoshenko held a number of than in conflict.” bilateral meetings with world leaders, The parties separately discussed the European officials, and politicians: priorities and challenges for the Yulia Tymoshenko met with IMF implementation of reforms in Ukraine Managing Director Christine after the presidential elections. Lagarde https://ba.org.ua/yuliya-timoshenko- The parties discussed in detail the social zustrilasya-z-direktorom- and economic situation in Ukraine, the rozporyadnikom-mvf-kristin-lagard/

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in interests,” she said, informing Mr. Volker ' i about the “New Strategy for Peace” plan drafted by a group of experts upon the initiative of the Batkivshchyna Party leader. i For his part, Kurt Volker confirmed US support for the sovereignty and independence of our state, noting that the US would continue to make efforts for the reestablishment of the territorial had an open discussion with Yulia integrity of Ukraine and establishment of Tymoshenko on the sidelines of the peace in the east. Munich Security Conference. Our conversation focused on recent economic developments in Ukraine and the need for continued implementation of the authorities’ economic reform agenda under the IMF-supported Stand-By Arrangement, including the anti­ corruption framework,” said Christine Lagarde in her statement published on the IMF official site. https://www.imf.Org/en/News/Articles/2 019/02/16/pr1949-statement-by- The parties also discussed the lagarde-on-the-meeting-with-former- implementation of reforms in Ukraine and prime-minister-of-ukraine-yulia- the fight against corruption. tymoshenko https://ba.org.ua/yuliya-timoshenko- zustrilasya-zi-specpredstavnikom-

Yulia Tymoshenko met with US derzhdepu-ssha-kurtom-volkerom/ Special Representative for Ukraine Kurt Volker Yulia Tymoshenko met with The parties discussed the situation in President of Estonia Kersti Ukraine with a focus on Russian Kaljulaid aggression in the east of the country, the The Batkivshchyna Party leader thanked possibilities for ending the war and Kersti Kaljulaid for her support and establishing a stable peace in Donbas, as assistance to Ukraine during the current well as the issues of bilateral cooperation difficult times. between the US and Ukraine. “You were the first state leader to visit the Yulia Tymoshenko underlined the need to conflict zone in Donbas. You named the hold negotiations in the Budapest+ war a “war” and do not leave us alone to format with the leaders of the signatory face the aggressor country, Russia. We are countries of the Budapest Memorandum sincerely grateful for everything you have done for us and for your help,” Yulia and including the EU High Commissioner and German leadership. Tymoshenko stressed. “Our political force has done everything On her part, the President of Estonia possible to protect Ukraine’s national noted: “We understand that the war in the

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east of Ukraine is our common threat. We together with experts, representatives of are ready to further support your country civil society and business community and people.” members to draw our country out of the current crisis. Particular attention was paid to the fight with corruption at senior government levels and the strengthening of anti­ corruption agencies in our country. Linas Linkevicius’s tweet: @YuliaTymoshenko, former PM of #Ukraine & candidate in forthcoming ‘ -r presidential elections, at #MSC2019. I have stressed that the ongoing reforms The parties discussed the political, social process in Ukraine has to be irreversible. and economic situation in Ukraine, as well #Lithuania will continue supporting as the Euro-Atlantic aspirations of our Ukraine’s Euro-Atlantic integration country and the issues of bilateral https://mobile.twitter.com/linkeviciusl cooperation between Estonia and https://ba.org.ua/yuliya-timoshenko- Ukraine. zustrilasya-z-ministrom-zakordonnix- https://ba.org.ua/yuliya-timoshenko- sprav-litvi-2/ zustrilasya-z-prezidentom-estonii'/

2. YULIA TYMOSHENKO: NO Yulia Tymoshenko met with COMPROMISE WITH THE ENEMY ON THE Lithuanian Minister of Foreign ISSUE OF ENDING THE WAR Affairs Linas Linkevicius The new government will not agree to any The parties discussed the political, social compromise with the Kremlin that will and economic situation in Ukraine, as well allow for an end to the war at the expense as the European aspirations of our of Ukraine’s interests. This was the country and issues of bilateral message from Yulia Tymoshenko during cooperation between Lithuania and her speech at the third Ukrainian Lunch Ukraine. that took place within the framework of the Munich Security Conference. The topic of the lunch was “Ukraine 2019 - Choices Ahead”. “Be sure, our team will defend Ukraine adamantly. There will be no compromises that will touch Ukraine’s interests. In particular, this concerns ending the war,” the Batkivshchyna Party leader stressed. During her speech, she stated that the 144 reforms reported on by the current Yulia Tymoshenko informed Linas government led to the impoverishment of Linkevicius in detail about the challenges people. She stressed that the economic our country faced and the strategic prosperity of Ukraine would be an programme “the New Course for Ukraine” additional weapon in the fight against the initiated by Tymoshenko and developed

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Russian aggressor. This could be secured 'Deep, real change' by the adoption of a new Constitution and Both President Poroshenko and realization of a new economic course. Tymoshenko have pledged to bring It is worth noting that the participants of Ukraine into NATO and the EU. However, the Ukrainian Lunch included President of Tymoshenko told DW that there are some Estonia Kersti Kaljulaid, Minister of obvious differences between her and the Foreign Affairs of Canada Chrystia current president. Freeland, US Special Representative for "It is not enough to simply declare (in Ukraine Kurt Volker and others. favor of) joining the EU and NATO, the Ben Flodges, Commander, US Army president needs to be the main agent of Europe (2014-2017), spoke at the lunch, transformation in the country," and Stephen Sakur, BBC World News Tymoshenko said. HARD Talk presenter was the moderator "We need deep, real change based on the of the discussion. values of EU and NATO," the 58-year-old https://ba.org.ua/yuliya-timoshenko- Ukrainian said. "But right now, zhodnix-kompromisiv-iz-vorogom-v- unfortunately, the government is not pitanni-zavershennya-vijni/ sticking to these principles and is not turning them into reality." 3. INTERVIEW WITH DW IN MUNICH: YULIA TYMOSHENKO: UKRAINE HEADING FOR RESET1 OF GOVERNMENT Ukraine needs a leader who would drive the country's "transformation," Ukraine's presidential candidate Yulia Tymoshenko told DW in Munich. The former PM also slammed the Nord Stream 2 pipeline as unnecessary. Bypassing with Nord Stream 2 With presidential Speaking to DW, Tymoshenko also coming up in March, the country is set to commented on the controversial Nord see changes at the top, Ukraine's former Stream 2 project to deliver gas from Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko told DW Russia directly to . Ukraine on the sidelines of the Munich Security opposes the project for fear of losing its Conference. role as a gas transit nation. With the "Ukraine is in for a reset of government," project completed, Russia would be able Tymoshenko told DW's Maxim Drabok. "I to shut off the pipelines passing through am sure of it." Ukraine and deny Kyiv lucrative gas fees, Tymoshenko is one of the key candidates without jeopardizing its buyers in ahead of the March 31 poll, alongside Germany. current President . In Munich, Tymoshenko said that Nord While both of them are currently trailing Stream 2 was unnecessary and ran behind political outsider Volodymyr against Ukraine’s interests in terms of its Zelensky, analysts still believe the 41- energy economics. year-old comedian is unlikely to triumph "Ukraine can provide transport for all gas against Poroshenko or Tymoshenko in a needed for Europe without any problem. run-off vote. That is why it is very regrettable that

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everything is being decided without falsifications during the presidential consulting Ukraine," she said. elections on 31 March. From prime minister to prisoner Yulia Tymoshenko reminded that fair Ukraine's association agreement with the elections are a core EU and NATO value, EU repeatedly states that Kyiv should be but said the head of state and his consulted over such issues, according to entourage pose a threat to a fair vote. Tymoshenko. She cited examples of the dirty tricks used "This is why we hope that all necessary by Petro Poroshenko’s campaign: giving decisions would be made to not build UAH 1000 to people in exchange for political 'streams' and instead follow refusal to work for other candidates; economic goals and partnerships," the expansion of the Register of Voters by the former prime minister added. current government by means of so- Tymoshenko first grabbed international called ghost voters; registration of clone- headlines as one of the leaders of candidates (e.g. upon the President’s and Ukraine's 2004 Orange revolution, before his campaign’s initiative, Yuri serving as the country's first female prime Volodymyrovych Tymoshenko was minister between 2007 and 2010. registered as a candidate, having the Tymoshenko ran for president in 2010, same initials Y.V. Tymoshenko in the list losing to pro-Russian leader Viktor of candidates). Yanukovych. She was subsequently https://ba.org.ua/yuliya-timoshenko- sentenced for corruption in a trial that domovilasya-z-inshimi-kandidatami- was regarded in the West as politically protidiyati-falsifikaciyam-poroshenka/ motivated. The politician was released from prison in 5. YULIA TYMOSHENKO MEETS WITH the final days of the 2014 Maidan uprising, REPRESENTATIVES OF ANTI­ as Yanukovych fled the country. She then CORRUPTION CIVIC ORGANIZATIONS ran for president in the same year, but On 7 February, Yulia Tymoshenko met lost to Poroshenko. with representatives of the Anti- https://www.dw.com/en/yulia- Corruption Agenda initiative that unites tymoshenko-ukraine-heading-for-reset- 23 anti-corruption civic organizations. of-government/a-47552389

4. YULIA TYMOSHENKO, ANATOLIY HRYTSENKO, ANDRIY SADOVYI, AND OTHER CANDIDATES UNITE AND SIGN A MEMORANDUM ON FAIR ELECTIONS Responding to an appeal by civic organizations, Yulia Tymoshenko and other presidential candidates signed the Meeting participants discussed the key Memorandum for fair elections on 8 problems of Ukraine’s anti-corruption February. This happened during the TV policy such as the functioning of anti­ show “The Right to Power” on 1+1 TV- corruption agencies and the need to channel. protect them from the influence of They also discussed parallel vote counting politicians. with a view to preventing any

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Yulia Tymoshenko expressed her 7. HROMADSKE TV: UKRAINIAN willingness to continue cooperation with LAWMAKER CLAIMS POROSHENKO the public in the fight against corruption. “MAKES DEALS” WITH PUTIN ON A https://ba.org.ua/yuliya-timoshenko- DAILY BASIS zustrilasya-z-predstavnikami- 74 February, 2019 gromadskix-antikorupcijnix-organizacij/ Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko strikes a deal with Russian President 6. UKRAINE HAS LOWER QUALITY OF Vladimir Putin every day, according to LIFE THAN NEIGHBORING COUNTRIES Serhiy Leshchenko, a Ukrainian politician Ukraine occupies the 62nd position in the and former investigative journalist 2019 Quality of Life Index for Country currently serving in parliament as member study prepared yearly by Numbeo service, of Petro Poroshenko’s Bloc. a lower ranking than all neighboring Leshchenko serves on the parliamentary countries. committee on Corruption Prevention and Counteraction and is one of the president’s loudest critics. He was formally the Deputy Editor-in-Chief for the publication and is known for his work on corruption. * “[The representative] is , one of the worst examples of the political, let's say, zoo in Ukraine. He's a political animal, and he's a member

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Source: Numbeo Poroshenko’s team. They’re conspiring According to the study, the first three together,” he said. positions in the Quality of Life Index are “With the current President, we lost time, taken by Denmark, , and we lost money, and we lost spirit of Finland. Germany is 8th, with Japan and people.” the US 12th and 13th correspondingly. Leshchenko also warned Western Egypt is the last, ranked 71thin the Index. governments about betting on the wrong Belarus has the 37th position. To candidate, citing historical missteps in compare, Lithuania is 29th, Latvia 34th, policy that have done little to help and Poland 35th. Ukraine’s fledgling democracy, such as At the same time, Russia and Ukraine are President George H.W. Bush’s infamous substantially lagging behind Belarus. The “Chicken Kyiv” comment. former has the 59th position and our “If the West put all bets on Poroshenko's country is 62nd. side, it means, after the elections, there https://www.numbeo.com/quality-of- can be stupid situations, as has happened many times in the past. [Western life/rankings_by_country.jsp governments] made a very, let's say, arrogant position towards Ukrainian independence in the 90’s....President George H.W. Bush spoke to the parliament of Ukraine and argued

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Ukrainians should stay in the Soviet tumultuous days in the country’s history, Union.” Hromadske became the go-to medium for The Hromadske Network prides itself on — the place to discover and its impartiality. Hromadske is run as an make sense of what was happening in the NGO “Public Television” (Hromadske TV in country and the region. Ukrainian). Journalists founded and run https://en.hromadske.ua/posts/ukrainian the organisation, and the funding comes -lawmaker-claims-poroshenko-makes- from non-profit organisations. Launched dea Is-with-putin-on-a-daily-basis on the eve of some of the most

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BATKIVSHCHYNA PARTY NEWS 1. Yulia Tymoshenko signs a commitment to Ukrainians 2. Yulia Tymoshenko meets with U.S. Under Secretary of State 3. Reuters Interview with Yulia Tymoshenko: For the first time, we need to vote not for individuals, but for real, serious, well-founded programs of action 4. EuCham: Ukraine is the last in the 2019 doing Business rating 5. Yulia Tymoshenko: The authorities are planning to manipulate ballots 6. President Poroshenko uses political clones against his competitors

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1. YULIA TYMOSHENKO SIGNS A • Putting the New Constitution to a COMMITMENT TO UKRAINIANS referendum; On 7 March, Yulia Tymoshenko signed a • Overcoming corruption and Presidential Candidate Commitment to elimination of the clan oligarchic Every Ukrainian Citizen. The document regime; contains a clear list of steps the • Establishment of medical Batkivshchyna Party leader will insurance; implement after her victory in the • Introduction of “personified elections. pension system”; Yulia Tymoshenko named the main • Raising living standards and commitments, the means of implementation of which are set forth in incomes to current Polish levels the New Course of Ukraine - a within five years; comprehensive document that concerns You can read the full list of commitments all spheres of Ukrainian life: at: • Establishment of peace https://ba.org.ua/yuliya-timoshenko- throughout Ukraine: “There is no pidpisala-zobovyazannya-pered- ukra%D1%97ncyami/ doubt. Donbas and Crimea will be returned”;

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2. YULIA TYMOSHENKO MEETS WITH opposing Russian aggression, at a U.S. UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE moment when our citizens who barely On 7 March, Batkivshchyna Party leader survive in the harsh economic conditions Yulia Tymoshenko met with U.S. Under pay army tax. The whole Ukrainian nation Secretary of State for Political Affairs now knows that top government officials David Hale. are using this money for its corrupt First of all, the parties discussed the purposes and that concerns all spheres of situation in eastern Ukraine and annexed life,” Yulia Tymoshenko said. Crimea. Besides, the parties discussed the ongoing election campaign in Ukraine. https://ba.org.ua/yuliya-timoshenko- zustrilasya-iz-zastupnikom-derzhavnogo- H- sekretarya-ssha/ t:.5 3. REUTERS INTERVIEW WITH YULIA TYMOSHENKO: FOR THE FIRST TIME, WE NEED TO VOTE NOT FOR INDIVIDUALS, BUT FOR REAL, SERIOUS, WELL- In this regard, Yulia Tymoshenko called FOUNDED PROGRAMS OF ACTION for a strengthening of sanctions against March 4, 2019 Russia and stressed that Crimea must be Matthias Williams, Pavel Polityuk returned to Ukraine, while at the same KIEV (Reuters) - Yulia Tymoshenko has time underlining that her team was not been Ukraine’s prime minister twice, was prepared to make any concessions to the global face of a revolution, imprisoned Russia’s President Vladimir Putin. She by two different presidents, and the underlined the need to initiate new target of an operation to discredit her by negotiations on the war in the Donbas President Donald Trump’s former within a new Budapest+ format while campaign manager. preserving the Minsk format of Now the 58-year-old known for her fiery negotiations. She thanked the U.S. for the rhetoric and, once upon a time, for her support provided to our state in its fight peasant braid hairstyle, hopes to unseat for peace, independence and the her old rival Petro Poroshenko in a tightly territorial integrity of Ukraine. fought presidential vote on March 31. Yulia Tymoshenko also informed the Her campaign is a difficult balancing act, Under Secretary about the political and promising reforms and continued social and economic situation in Ukraine cooperation with the International and the process of reform Monetary Fund while pledging to reverse implementation, in particular, the fight sharp increases in the price of gas used against corruption. for home heating that the IMF set as a “The Ukrainian people deserve the condition for more loans. highest praise, but they are fatally unlucky At stake is the chance to lead Ukraine five with the government. Today, the years after the Maidan street protests government is stuck in corruption. In ousted a Kremlin-backed leader and set addition to that, they use the money the country on a pro-Western course and allocated for the army. This is the worst bloody confrontation with Russia. corruption at a moment when we are

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When asked whether businesses should Though soft-spoken during her Reuters worry about her presidency, Tymoshenko interview, Tymoshenko has loudly turned pointed to her experience of working with her fire on Poroshenko in public. the IMF as prime minister but said that She called for his impeachment in the terms of the current arrangement February over corruption allegations were counterproductive. involving the son of one of Poroshenko’s “After the presidential election we would close allies, which were made by an like to start a constructive dialogue with investigative journalist network. All the IMF on how to correct this situation, parties involved deny wrongdoing. how to make our joint cooperation bring So is her long experience in politics a results that will be felt by the economy of strength or a weakness? Ukraine and Ukrainian citizens.” “I believe that Ukraine should end its For ordinary people, “virtually all of their history of voting for a person, a family income is wiped out through exorbitant, name or a cool creative advertisement,” unreasonably high gas prices, this means she said. that people have no money left to support “For the first time, we need to vote not for the Ukrainian economy", she said. individuals, but for real, serious, well- Her plan for dealing with Russia is to founded programs of action. Except us, persevere with the Minsk peace talks, nobody today has such programs.” which have staunched but not ended the https://www.reuters.com/article/us- bloodshed in the Donbas. She also called ukraine-election-tymoshenko/ukraines- for wider negotiations involving the tymoshenko-gas-princess-prisoner-and- , Britain and the European next-president-idUSKCNIQLOLT Union. She compares the attacks from 4. EUCHAM: UKRAINE IS THE LAST IN Poroshenko’s camp to that time of THE 2019 DOING BUSINESS RATING Yanukovych’s rule. “I know that the The EuCham has published BEST strongest propaganda machine is turned EUROPEAN COUNTRIES FOR BUSINESS against me, as Manafort once did,” she 2019 rating.

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Business Community. It confirms that “It is a shame that this is being done after Ukraine needs change and real reforms, the Revolution of Dignity. People not their imitations. President expected democracy and instead they Tymoshenko will move Ukraine forward have falsification,” said Tymoshenko. and implement real systemic change”, said https://ba.org.ua/yuliya-timoshenko- Deputy Head of the Batkivshchyna Party zamovivshi-60-mln-byuleteniv-cvk- Hryhoriy Nemyria. stvoryuye-mozhlivosti-dlya-falsifikacij/ EuCham is an independent, non­ governmental, privately-organized 6. PRESIDENT POROSHENKO USES institution representing the interests of POLITICAL CLONES AGAINST HIS national and international companies COMPETITORS doing business in Europe, improving the The number of candidates in this year’s business environment they are active in. elections in Ukraine represents an http://eucham.eu/images/infographics20 absolute record in Ukraine’s history. As of 19.pdf 4 March, there were 42 candidates on the list. Most of the candidate names are 5. YULIA TYMOSHENKO: THE unknown to Ukrainian citizens. AUTHORITIES ARE PLANNING TO Among the candidates there are classical MANIPULATE BALLOTS technical candidates who run in the On March 4, Yulia Tymoshenko, elections to decrease the electoral presidential candidate and Head of support of the likely front-runners. They Batkivshchyna Party, said the CEC is copy the slogans of their competitor, creating conditions for election fraud by his/her rhetoric, and draw voters over to simultaneously printing ballots for rounds their side by relentlessly criticizing their one and two of voting. “victim” and underlining his/her weaknesses. Besides, clone candidates are also being used. They are typical clones who have the same or similar name and initials. On the ballot paper, voters can easily confuse them with the candidate they support and vote for them by mistake. Thus, clone candidates can take away thousands of important votes. The candidate used by “The fact that the CEC ordered 60 million the current President Poroshenko against ballots to be printed for the first and Yulia Tymoshenko is Yuri Tymoshenko. second rounds allows for falsification of He has the same initials as Yulia the vote by the authorities,” Yulia Tymoshenko and was elected to the Tymoshenko said during a meeting with Parliament in 2014 with the support of the the media in Bukovyna. People’s Front. Before this, he had almost “The ballots should be printed separately. nothing to do with politics: he was a house There is concern this will be used to falsify painter, driver and later fought in Donbas the election,” said the Batkivshchyna as part of the National Guards, which Party leader. promoted his political career.

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What are the signs that indicate this candidate is technical? Yuri Tymoshenko seems to be a typical clone candidate. He has the same family name and initials as Yulia Tymoshenko. https://www.pravda.com.ua/articles/201 9/03/5/7208324/

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BATKIVSHCHYNA PARTY NEWS 1. The Batkivshchyna party reveals plans for massive election fraud by President

Poroshenko 2. Minister of the Interior accuses Poroshenko of voter bribery 3. KP on Poroshenko’s violations during the election campaign 4. KP: Where are debates? 5. Polish Daily Rzeczpospolita: a President for UAH 1000 6. Yulia Tymoshenko discusses with the Head of EU Delegation to Ukraine massive violations during the election campaign 7. backs Yulia Tymoshenko in presidential race 8. Yulia Tymoshenko will win the presidential elections - poll of 2.5 million Ukrainians

RESULTS OF THE POLL OF 2.5 MILLION UKRAINIANS FIRST ROUND

YULIA TYMOSHENKO 31,68% VOLODYMYR ZELENSKIY 20,96% PETRO POROSHENKO 15,80%

1. THE BATKIVSHCHYNA PARTY The following methods of massive fraud REVEALS PLANS FOR MASSIVE initiated by President Poroshenko and ELECTION FRAUD BY PRESIDENT implemented throughout Ukraine have POROSHENKO been identified: Fair democratic elections are a national • use of administrative resources security issue for Ukraine. Elections that • giving out special payments from the will be considered unfair by Ukrainians can state budget on the eve of the vote provoke unrest, which can in turn be used (one-time supplements to pensioners, by the aggressor-state to further monetization of subsidies, special destabilize the situation in Ukraine. At payments, etc.) stake is Ukraine’s survival as a state, the • direct bribery of voters preservation of our independence, • registration of so-called technical sovereignty, and territorial integrity. candidates and candidates with similar In this regard, Batkivschyna Party would names to other candidates with a view like to stress that massive fraud is to ensuring majorities in the underway from the election campaign of composition of precinct and district the current Petro election commissions to falsify election Poroshenko, jeopardizing the holding of results, and candidates with similar fair and democratic elections. This is names or so-called clone candidates to unacceptable. The Batkivshchyna team is other candidates to decrease electoral calling for joint efforts to counteract the support for the likely front-runners (On distortion of the will of Ukrainian citizens. the ballot paper, voters can easily

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confuse them with the candidate they • disproportional distribution of support and vote for them by mistake. leadership positions in district election Thus, clone candidates can take away commissions (according to information thousands of important votes. The on the CEC website, candidate Petro candidate used by the current Poroshenko has 25 senior positions in President Poroshenko against Yulia DECs (including 12 chairs, 6 deputy Tymoshenko is Yuri Tymoshenko). chairs, and 7 secretaries), V. Petrov - • contract public opinion polls to distort 24, Y. Lytvynenko - 22. At the same the assessment of real support among time, other candidates have 17 senior voters for one or another presidential positions on the average). candidate. This is done to legalize • use of law enforcement bodies future voter bribing and election • concerns over election fraud extend to rigging a range of additional issues. • Censorship (in some media, officials have misused resources and abused 2. MINISTER OF THE INTERIOR ACCUSES their office while covering the activity POROSHENKO OF VOTER BRIBERY of the current president) 12 March 2019: Minister of the Interior of • intimidation of members of Batkivshchyna Party (many Ukraine said that the campaign office of a pro-government Batkivshchyna Party members candidate allegedly tried to buy votes of appointed as precinct election pensioners in Kyiv, Kyiv region and one commission chairs have been more region with the help of summoned for questioning by administrative resources and at the lawenforcement agencies, in particular expense of a budget programme. This was the State Security Service, allegedly stated during the Svoboda Slova talk- within the context of criminal show on ICTV. The Minister of the Interior casesfocusing on bribing voters. They claims the cases took place in Kyiv region, have also been pressed to Kyiv, Odesa and Kharkiv regions. withdrawfrom the election campaign) https://interfax.com.ua/news/general/57 • bias by the Central Election 1728.html Commission where there is a pro- presidential majority of members 3. KP ON POROSHENKO’S VIOLATIONS • legalization of bribery of voters (distribution of money) by CEC (After a DURING THE ELECTION CAMPAIGN criminal case was initiated on the Editorials bribing of voters by the Poroshenko March 7, 2079 campaign office, the CEC provided A month before the election, Poroshenko clarifications (resolution of 22 February ordered one-time payments of $90 to the 2019 No. 376) that de facto legalized poorest pensioners. Poroshenko has no the bribing procedure used by the legal right to order social payments like campaign office via the mechanism of that. As a president, he has nothing to do the so-called reimbursement of costs with pensions. But pensioners are the by means of signing a contract with most actively voting group in Ukraine, so legal entities for the election what the heck. campaign.) Let’s throw in even more cash! Starting March, or right before the election, the

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government will pay utility subsidies to 5. POLISH DAILY RZECZPOSPOLITA: A low-income households in cash, instead of PRESIDENT FOR UAH 1000 providing a discount as it used to. It will March 12, 2019 put a bit more cash into the pockets of Rustan Szoszyn impoverished Ukrainians — and hopefully, The campaigners hired by the “pro­ the president’s camp must think, will push government campaign office” make a list them to vote for the incumbent. of the poorest residents and then visit https://www.kyivpost.com/article/opinio them and ask whether they are ready to n/editorial/populist-and-clown.html support their candidate. If the answer is February 8,2079 positive, they offer assistance. There is concern that Poroshenko has Then, district, city or town authorities get created local fiefdoms among the bigcity the list of people to whom they should mayors of Odesa, Kharkiv and and pay UAH 1000 as “social assistance”. elsewhere in exchange for loyalty. https://www.rp.pl/Swiat/303129928- https://www.kyivpost.com/article/opinio Prezydent-za-1000-hrywien.html n/editorial/free-fair-election.html 6. YULIA TYMOSHENKO DISCUSSES 4 KP: WHERE ARE DEBATES? WITH THE HEAD OF EU DELEGATION TO Editorial UKRAINE MASSIVE VIOLATIONS February 15, 2019 DURING THE ELECTION CAMPAIGN Ukraine is still not Turkmenistan, where March 14, 2019 people hail the great leader and hang his Yulia Tymoshenko, presidential candidate picture in every office or school. But for and Batkivshchyna Party leader, has Ukraine to have democracy, its recently met with the Head of the presidential candidates must stop going Delegation of the European Union to to only scripted events where praise is Ukraine, Ambassador Hugues Mingarelli. heaped on them and no important questions are asked. President Petro Poroshenko is seeking re- election on March 31 by trying to stay above the campaign fray. He rarely speaks with independent journalists, preferring loyalists and speeches to friendly audiences. Ukraine has a poor tradition of presidential debates. Leonid Kuchma Yulia Tymoshenko told the ambassador dodged them in 1999. about the situation in Ukraine and the refused Yulia Tymoshenko in 2010 and presidential campaign, primarily the large- Poroshenko did the same in 2014. scale falsifications organized and carried Unrehearsed debates help voters by out by the team of the current President subjecting candidates to scrutiny. Poroshenko. https://www.kyivpost.com/article/opinio “I would like you to know about the n/editorial/where-are-debates.html problems we are encountering in this election campaign. Large-scale violations and falsifications. There were two

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revolutions in Ukraine for freedom, time for the pro-Ukrainian forces to win democracy and European values. We very and to combine our efforts. We much hoped that dishonest elections understand that the only candidate able would be put to an end, but what is to win is Yulia Tymoshenko. We have happening is incompatible with common energy and values. We both seek democracy,” the Batkivshchyna Party to build a happy Ukraine,” Serhiy Taruta leader said. stressed. She told the EU Ambassador about the He also added that his decision to back methods of falsification being used by the Yulia Tymoshenko is a signal for other team of President Petro Poroshenko. candidates to think about the country. “These dirty methods are completely The memorandum signatories undertook distorting the will of the people of commitments to stop the Ukraine. And this is unacceptable,” Yulia and to unite the country, to adopt a new Tymoshenko concluded. People’s Constitution, and to implement Ambassador Hugues Mingarelli stressed the program provisions of the candidates, that the elections in Ukraine should be namely the New Course for Ukraine and honest and free and take place in Ukraine 2030. accordance with OSCE standards. https://ba.org.ua/sergij-taruta- https://ba.org.ua/yuliya-timoshenko- pidtrimav-yuliyu-timoshenko-kandidati- obgovorila-z-golovoyu-predstavnictva- pidpisali-memorandum/ yes-v-ukra%D1%97ni-masshtabni- porushennya-pid-chas-viborcho%D1%97- 8. YULIA TYMOSHENKO WILL WIN THE kampani%D1%97/ PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS - POLL OF 2.5 MILLION UKRAINIANS 7. SERHIY TARUTA BACKS YULIA March 75, 2079 TYMOSHENKO IN PRESIDENTIAL RACE The victory of Yulia Tymoshenko in the Presidential candidate from Osnova Party presidential elections on 31 March is Serhiy Taruta has decided to support beyond question according to a major Batkivshchyna Party leader Yulia nationwide poll. The survey found that Tymoshenko in Ukraine's presidential 31.68% of voters will support her in the elections on 31 March. first round, and in the run-off she confidently defeats both Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Petro Poroshenko.

RESULTS OF THE POLL OF 2.5 MILLION UKRAINIANS FIRST ROUND YULIA TYMOSHENKO 31,68% VOLODYMYR ZELENSKIY 20,96% PETRO POROSHENKO 15,80% 7,65% YURI BOYKO 7,62% ANATOLIY HRYTSENKO 7,50% 3,24% /n ANDRIY SADOVYI 2,94% RUSLAN KOSHULYNSKIY 2,44%. On 16 March, the politicians signed a 2019 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS IN UKRAINE

memorandum on cooperation. These are the results of one of the biggest “There is a high risk that the government polls conducted in Ukraine’s history. will stay for five more years and that the During February, 2.5 million citizens were war and economic ruin will continue. It’s interviewed in all regions, and in most

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cities, towns, and villages across the website confirm the numbers received as country. a result of the poll. The following results were obtained: Yulia All sociological surveys conducted by the Tymoshenko has the first place with respected companies before December 31.68%, Volodymyr Zelenskiy is the proved that Yulia Tymoshenko was the second with 20.96%, Petro Poroshenko is clear leader. However, since the beginning the third with 15.8%. In the run-off, Yulia of the election campaign, signs of dirty Tymoshenko defeats both Volodymyr manipulations have started to appear in Zelenskiy 50.53% against 40.55% survey results. This is why Batkivshchyna correspondingly, and Petro Poroshenko Party has decided to publish poll results it by 57.5% against 31.2% has conducted numerous times and that are always confirmed by the official RESULTS OF THE POLL OF 2.5 MILLION UKRAINIANS RUN-OFF election results on the CEC website. https://ba.org.ua/yuliya-timoshenko- YULIA TYMOSHENKO VOLODYMYR ZELENSKIY 40,55% peremagaye-na-viborax-prezidenta-dani-

YULIA TYMOSHENKO anketuvannya-25-mln-ukra%D1%97nciv/ PETRO POROSHENKO 31,20%

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This poll differs from others due to the number of respondents: in this case, 2.5 million citizens were interviewed and not a couple of thousand. The results of 7 waves of elections in the united territorial communities published on the CEC

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'fjL- > Hundreds of thousands of our children leave us and go to other countries. We need to protect their future, build a country where they would like to live and work.

We must gather all our national forces together and redistribute

* them to overcoming poverty, corruption and injustice. We, the Ukrainians, have to be cleansed of everything that prevents us from living happily. We need to unite and no longer allow anyone to divide us by territorial, linguistic, political, and religious characteristics.

We will stabilize the current situation and pave the way for the further rapid development of Ukraine. My goal is to build a state where everyone will find their place, their success, their stability and their peace. Where everyone can live happily, rather than heroically fight every day against the callous, corrupt ruling circles.

The New Course for Ukraine is our real path to the , paved by a large team of Ukrainian specialists. Hundreds of experts, lawyers, economists, representatives of Ukrainian civil society have been working for more than four years on the New Course We, the GREAT UKRAINIAN PEOPLE, need to become a strong for Ukraine. and successful nation, an equal among equals on a par with the developed countries. We have comprehended all the challenges Developed by the Ukrainian creative class, the New Course for facing us as a country; we know how to pave the right path to Ukraine brings together citizens willing to live in a successful and peace, to a successful, prosperous life of people. I am convinced happy country, seeing their future, the future of their children and that Ukraine will manage to become a prosperous, powerful grandchildren beautiful and, most importantly, in their homeland! European country. And we will do it with you! No one will ever destroy our spirit, our soul, our will and our national intellectual level. We, the Ukrainians, can and we must In a modern competitive and rather brutal world, each millimetre offer ourselves and the world a fundamentally new way of life for of success won back is important. In this global competitive people. A more spiritual, just and honest way than one existing struggle only the stronger wins. We should not count on outside today. The way which will allow everyone to fully, freely and help. Our strength is in ourselves, Ukrainians. We, the Ukrainians, directly live up to their potential. are the best! It gives us that compelling force that will help us pass any test and overcome any obstacles. A lot of work is ahead! And we will begin immediately, the day after the victory! Today, prices and tariffs continue to grow at an insane pace. Low wages and pensions do not allow Ukrainians to buy bare essentials. There is growing debt for utilities, no money for “free” medicine. Most Ukrainians believe that the country faces a new genocide according a rigorous external plan.

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THE NATIONAL IDEA THAT WE BELIEVE TO BE IN TIME FOR THE UKRAINIAN NATION IS THE NEW COURSE FOR UKRAINE CREATION OF SUCH ORDER AND RULES OF LIVING TOGETHER SO THAT EVERYONE WOULD BE ABLE is a clear step-by-step plan to put an end to disorder and to get TO COMPLETELY AND FREELY LIVE UP TO HIS OR on the path of Ukraine’s development. It consists of five key HER POTENTIAL IN HARMONY WITH THE CREATOR, areas: NATURE, SOCIETY AND HUMANITY, WITHOUT 1. NEW STRATEGY FOR PEACE AND SECURITY - VIOLATING LAWS OF THE UNIVERSE. I AM SURE is a real path to peace and restoration of our territorial integrity, THAT WE WILL DO THIS FOR OURSELVES AND FOR to strengthening the national defence capability. THE WORLD. WE, UKRAINIANS, WILL PAVE THE WAY The main goal is the peaceful life and security of every Ukrainian citizen. FOR OTHERS.

2. NEW PEOPLE’S CONSTITUTION - ONE OF THE MAIN PRIORITIES WE FOCUSE will eliminate the corrupted system of oligarchic clans and return ON ARE EDUCATION AND SCIENCE. AND THIS the country to people.

PRIORITY WILL BE PRIMARILY PROVIDED WITH Will establish justice, ensure equality before the law.

FINANCIAL RESOURCES, STRONG STRATEGIES AND Everyone will be able to directly influence their own lives and ORGANIZATIONAL CAPACITIES OF THE STATE. the life of their country, making decisions and monitoring their implementation.

FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF THE NEW COURSE 3. NEW ECONOMIC STRATEGY - FOR UKRAINE, WE NEED TO CARRY OUT THE is the transition from the out-dated resource economy to the FOLLOWING PRIORITY ACTIONS: economy of innovation development with a strong middle class.

• CONDUCTING A POPULATION CENSUS. WE 4. NEW SOCIAL DOCTRINE - SHOULD KNOW HOW MANY UKRAINIANS ARE is a gradual attaining European standards for wages and living LEFT IN UKRAINE. conditions over five years. • MAKING AN INVENTORY OF ALL OUR NATIONAL RESOURCES: LAND, FORESTS, RESERVOIRS, 5. NEW YOUTH POLICY - MINERAL AND FINANCIAL RESOURCES, is the creation of conditions for the full realization of the country’s main potential - the youth. PROPERTY AND SO ON.

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BLUEPRINT FOR OUR k 1. NEW STRATEGY ACTION • At the present stage, the task of the Ukrainian army is to restrain the FOR PEACE aggressor and build up its forces.

• The task of Ukrainian diplomacy, AND headed by the President, is to take offensive and seek collective SECURITY international measures to force the aggressor to peace and return Crimea and Donbass.

* i * STRONG DIPLOMACY

In 1994, at the request of the entire Our strategy for peace places emphasis civilized world, Ukraine refused the on the Budapest format of negotiations third largest nuclear arsenal. We have with the participation of the guarantor fulfilled our obligations to mankind. We states: the United States, Great Britain, dared to do that because the strongest Russia, China, and France. Only in this countries in the world, the United format of negotiations Ukraine, which States, Great Britain and Russia, gave has fulfilled all its obligations, will have a us official international guarantees strong stand and will be able to achieve of inviolability of our borders and the peace. non-use of military aggression against us. These guarantees were enshrined We will demand a collective use of The Ukrainian people is expecting from in an international document - the measures that are sufficiently effective the authorities not some empty rhetoric Budapest Memorandum. Subsequently, to force the Russian Federation to that there is no alternative to the Minsk France and China joined this peace and liberation of Crimea and Donbass. agreements and stories that the war cannot Memorandum. Now we have the right be stopped, but a clear strategy and real to demand strong and effective actions We will insist on significant actions. from countries that gave us these strengthening of international military- guarantees. technical assistance, which is much- needed by the country to create an To achieve the result, we need to launch In the modern world, only those guarantees on which the interested effective air defence system, to revive a strong negotiation process within party firmly insists are respected the Naval Forces and to strengthen “BUDAPEST PLUS” format, to create a and fulfilled. Since the war began, our capabilities to resist a land-based modernized, professional army under NATO the President of Ukraine has refused invasion at the current level. standards and to oust from power those who to demand implementation of We need a real peace, not its illusion turned the war into their most profitable international guarantees. But instead, extended for many years. business. he sat down at the negotiating table in Minsk with the leaders of “LNR” and We will facilitate a genuine negotiation “DNR”. process, the unconditional fulfillment Yulia Tymoshenko of the guarantees given to us and the We consider this a conspiracy restoration of peace in accordance with behind the Ukrainian people’s back. the Budapest Memorandum. > International guarantees must be /s fulfilled. Otherwise they are not worth the paper on which they are written. 7

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STRONG ARMY REINTEGRATION AND RESTITUTION OF TERRITORIES FREED FROM OCCUPATION Diplomatically, it is possible to achieve Our task is to make sure that the only those goals for achieving which defining sense of every soldier there are sufficient military capabilities. defending our country was a sense of De-occupation and reintegration of Internally displaced persons and That is why one of the foundations of confidence. the temporarily occupied Ukrainian patriots who endured in occupation are our strategy for peace and security is to territories are not successive stages, our mainstay and the main personnel Confidence that the state appreciates strengthen the Ukrainian army. but parallel, interconnected processes reserve for the restoration of Ukrainian and respects its military business. that need to be addressed today. power in the Donbass and Crimea. In today’s rigorous and aggressive Confidence that in the rear his family is Supporting and protecting the rights of world, where the struggle for resources Our team has developed a Ukrainian settled and protected by the state. internally displaced persons is a matter is intensifying, it is impossible to secure program for the reintegration of Crimea of dignity for Ukraine and an investment state independence, the inviolability and Donbass, which is an alternative Confidence in the reliability of in achieving sustainable peace. Today, of borders and the sovereign right to to the current «Minsk formula». The the weapon given to him by the the state must stop discrimination of manage one’s life without a strong army. key task of this program is to destroy state, confidence in commanders, displaced persons, give them the right The war that the aggressor country is the wall of fear, misunderstanding and headquarters and the home front. to vote, provide affordable housing and leading against us today is a tragic proof hatred that is being artificially raised work, and restore confidence in the of this. Confidence that a soldier - living, wounded between Ukraine and the occupied future. or dead - will not leave on the battlefield territories. The key task of this program The country needs a professional and will not be forgotten in captivity. is to bring millions of people out of The state will create all guaranteed (based on contract principles) army that conditions for the unrestricted and safe is morally and materially motivated, We will carry out a full modernization of stress. return of Ukrainians to their homes in well-trained, equipped, and well-armed, the according Two million Ukrainians forced to flee the de-occupied territories. built on powerful motivations of soldiers to NATO standards and increase our the war did not go to the aggressor and commanders. The foundation of a military potential to the level of strong country, not to Europe and not to The International Fund for Donbass strong army is people, respect for the armies in the world. We will always need America. They found salvation at home, Restoration and Development will soldier and trust in the commander. We a strong army, as a factor of stability and in Ukraine! It was they who refuted the be established, which will involve will create such an army. an argument reminding us that Ukraine’s myth about non-Ukrainian Donbass or international donors and investors interests must be considered. Crimea. Citizens of Donetsk and Crimes are Ukrainians! Donbass and Crimea belong to Ukraine in both letter and spirit! The state is obliged to surround SOLID SUPPORT TO A SOLDIER them with care and support.

Immediately after the presidential issues, as well as provides additional election, a new contract for service in benefits for war veterans and members the Armed Forces of Ukraine will be of their families. approved; a contract drafted on the basis The wage of a common contract soldier of proposals of thousands of soldiers that will ensure a European level of service will be one and a halftimes higher than conditions for soldiers and officers. the average wage in the country. The entire system of payment for military An important part of the new contract business will depend on the level of will be a motivational package approved responsibility, qualifications of the by law, which includes guaranteed soldier, as well as the degree of risk to life. housing. If a military signs a 15-year contract to serve in the army, the state For each year of soldier’s serving in the provides him/her with an apartment operation zone, a required increase in at the beginning of service, provides wages will be introduced up to 20% guaranteed medical insurance, decent annually. pension insurance and other important

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RECOVERY OF DAMAGES FROM RUSSIA

We will make a thorough inventory of citizens, Ukrainian business and the damages caused by Russia. Ukrainian state. We are ready to make exhaustive We will defend in the courts the rights efforts to bring the Russian of the state and citizens that have been Federation as an aggressor state to violated by the aggressor country - the legal accountability. The purpose of Russian Federation. such efforts is to obtain compensation for the damage caused to Ukrainian

LIABILITY OF THOSE RESPONSIBLE FOR UKRAINE IS A PEACEFUL CORRUPTION AT WAR COUNTRY. WE, UKRAINIANS, ARE Our army is dressed and armed not With the participation of international by presidents, ministers and deputies, experts, we will carry out an integrated, but by Ukrainian taxpayers; therefore, comprehensive, unbiased investigation PEACEFUL PEOPLE, BUT LIFE HAS every citizen has the right to demand of illegal corrupt plundering schemes in that every penny is used for making the defence sector, money laundering enhancements to defence, and not through arms trade and blood money TAUGHT US TO PROTECT OUR stolen or kept offshore. “at war” and bring the guilty to the most severe criminal responsibility. For such crimes there will be no period of limitation!!! LAND AND OUR VALUES. AND WE

UKRAINE’S ACCESSION TO NATO WILL DEFEND THEM FIERCELY AND

Only a modern, capable army and a its army USD 66 billion a year, and PROFESSIONALLY! full membership of Ukraine in NATO Ukraine - only USD 3 billion! With such - collective security and defence expenditures for the army and with system of the global peace - can be the such a state of it as today, Ukraine can guarantee of security of our country at any moment become an easy target and every Ukrainian family. for any military invasion. And the war that the aggressor country is currently To be alone in the global world has running against us is proof of that. The become extremely dangerous! great world struggle for vital resources NATO spends one trillion dollars a is just beginning. We must protect year on military defence of its member ourselves for the sake of our children! countries. Waging war against Ukraine, Only NATO membership can provide the Russian Federation spends on such protection. There is no other way.

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2. NEW PEOPLE’S CONSTITUTION % ■&' % r Today, Ukrainian citizens are not masters The thirteenth article of the Constitution m in their country. The fifth article of the states that the land, its minerals, water v> Constitution states that the Ukrainian and other natural resources are the T a* people is the bearer of sovereignty and property of the Ukrainian people. But 4^' i*_ the only source of power in Ukraine. this is not the case either. The resources Unfortunately, this is not true. The real of the country today belong to the very authority in Ukraine is the corrupt clan- same mafia. based structure - the oligarchy, and all of us, Ukrainians, are their labour force. The rights and freedoms of people are well specified in the Constitution, but they are blatantly ignored by senior Wms officials and civil servants.

noax KOHCnrrrw After the adoption of the New Constitution: Peace judges and judges of local courts will be elected by the people, but without L System of oligarchic clans will be political advertisement. The latter will eliminated. Fair rules of life will be generally be prohibited for everyone. established in the interests of people. Courts will be completely separated Ukrainians will be able to independently i£sn* . *. from any political and power influences. manage their state in their own 3 interests. Eli r Immunity of all high officials - the I president, judges, and deputies - will be m ll -W completely waived. The law will be one . ^ 4( Ei ’FT2 for all. HOBlill KYPC Citizens will have an unconditional right YKPA'lHM to change central and local authorities anaH08IKQKHoro MOX/1KBOCTI There is a pressing need of reviewing the at any moment not through sacrificial extremely unfair rules of our lives! This revolutions, but through a referendum means adopting the New Constitution of on a people’s initiative (without HOBA d Ukraine. It provides for the construction government intervention). KOHCTMTYLim / - of a society where there will no longer be All supervisory bodies will be appointed Te3K BHCTyny O/m Tumooiciko oligarchic clans; a society where Ukrainians independently of politicians, deputies, MaOopywi Kypc YKpa*N*. will choose in a referendum such a way of life executive and judicial authorities, and will prevent corruption, strictly r. in which no one will ever be able to violate their rights and freedoms with impunity. control the implementation of the Constitution, laws, and the observance Yulia Tymoshenko of human rights and freedoms. Today, all supervisors are not independent. We will change it!

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AND NOW THE MOST IMPORTANT THING! hobmm r5 cycnmbHUM THE NEW CONSTITUTION, WHICH norOBIP ELIMINATES THE SYSTEM OF OLIGARCHIC

HOBMM KYPC YKPAIHM HOBI MO)K/IMBOCTI XUlfl KO>KHOrO CLANS AND CORRUPTION, WILL NEVER BE ADOPTED BY AN OLIGARCHIC AND U ✓ ✓ CORRUPT PARLIAMENT.

AFTER INAUGURATION, THE NEW PRESIDENT OF UKRAINE WILL They will be independently elected or temporary investigative commissions, appointed and supervised by the public and special parliamentary prosecutors. ANNOUNCE THE ALL-UKRAINIAN Chambers of Honour. It will be entitled to apply directly to the court for the results of inspections. Citizens will be granted the right to REFERENDUM, AND IN THIS a legislative initiative in the form of The New Constitution will provide petitions. strong rights and opportunities to local REFERENDUM, THE PEOPLE OF UKRAINE communities. They will have the right, Public organizations, nation’s moral irrespective of whether they united or WILL ADOPT A NEW CONSTITUTION. and spiritual leaders will necessarily be not, to form their executive committees, directly involved in the governance of will have taxes assigned to their budget the country. (100% of the personal income tax, A new constitutional body - the 100% of the land tax and guaranteed THAT’S HOW THE UKRAINIAN PEOPLE National Strategic Centre of Ukraine parts of all other taxes). Communities - will be established, which will be will be able to completely dispose of WILL LAUNCH THE NEW STAGE IN THE the driving force for the country’s land within their borders. Regions and innovation development. districts will be governed by prefects. HISTORY OF UKRAINE, BY INITIATING The parliamentary opposition will be ESTABLISHMENT OF THEIR OWN, FAIR endowed with all rights of parliamentary control. It will appoint members and heads of the Accounting Chamber, RULES OF LIFE.

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Based on the New Constitution, we will On the basis of the New Constitution, eliminate the structure of oligarchic through All-Ukrainian associations, lH HO clans and demonopolize all sectors of representatives of professional circles nPE3EHTALim nPOfPAMU our economic life in order to create equal and civil society will be involved in the HO BUM EKOHOMNHMM opportunities for the development of all governance of the country by investing KYPC YKPAIHM entrepreneurial initiatives in our country their experience and intelligence in the under conditions of genuine competition public administration system, and by and a real market. establishing an unwavering public control overall branches of government. The administrative rule of terror against entrepreneurs will be immediately and On the basis of the New Constitution, a severely stopped. Power structures court system will be established, so that will no longer “cover” corporate raiding, Ukrainian citizens and foreign investors extortion, smuggling, and illegal deals, will never have doubts in its justness. as the new Constitution will place them Si under real mandatory control of civil society. fca m

m In the five years we have to move from a backward resource economy to an economy of innovative development. We will be

exporting only finished high-tech products r a instead of exporting raw materials. We ■a Si will not allow anyone to use Ukraine as a if raw-material appendage of the developed world. A person, its creativity, intelligence, entrepreneurial initiative and innovative technologies should become the centre of development of the Ukrainian economy.

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all bureaucratic obstacles to the exchange. This will significantly FINANCIAL STABILITY AND development of green energy for small reduce the price of gas for industrial AFFORDABLE CREDITING and medium businesses. consumers. A fully-fledged electricity market will We will build LNG terminals for be introduced, which will create real liquefied gas import of non-Russian For the revival and development of the economy, it is necessary to immediately start competition and reduce electricity origin, which will be the second step a large-scale, comprehensive long-term crediting to the Ukrainian economy. And we tariffs. for reducing the price of gas for will do it! industry. We will fully demonopolize gas imports We will restore confidence in the entrepreneurs and turn to the policy and provide open trade in all kinds of Within five years, we will organize banking system, support the creation of long-term lending for a period energy resources in Ukraine, which will large-scale extraction of our own and development of Ukrainian banks. of15-20 years for development and allow creating transparent prices and natural gas and fully meet our modernization of Ukrainian enterprises. will help to reduce energy costs. needs. We will use our own gas for For small businesses and farmers, a loan domestic consumption and export insurance system instead of collateral radically simplify and mitigate the In order to ensure energy security, to Europe. That is how we will fill our will be developed and introduced. requirements for the work of Ukrainian we will rapidly develop our own gas transportation system with gas banks. coal industry instead of importing We will change the inefficient policy for export, and we will not have to expensive foreign coal. of the National Bank of Ukraine in the The work of the Deposit Guarantee count on gas supplies from Russia. field of monetary, currency and banking Fund will be uncompromising and in- All the entrepreneurs will be able We, the Ukrainians, have 960 billion regulation. Therefore, we will: depth. Corrupt officials will be punished to supply imported natural gas cubic meters of natural gas in explored for every stolen penny. to Ukraine freely and without any fields in Ukraine. It is enough for stop inflation, liquidate the financial restrictions on the Ukrainian power more than 40 years of energy self- pyramid of abuse of savings certificates We will restore justice for those people sufficiency. at the National Bank, which depletes who have lost their bank deposits and Ukraine of billions of dollars and moves property during an illegally organized them offshore. precipitous fall in the hryvnia exchange rate. implement market-based strengthening of the national currency - the hryvnia - Any official who is guilty of destroying devalued by illegal means; the country’s financial sector, deliberate AGRICULTURAL SECTOR AND LAND bankruptcy of Ukrainian banks and reduce the cost of credit resources Ukrainian entrepreneurs, excessive RELATIONS REFORM in the Ukrainian banking system to artificial cheapening of the national the average European rates of 3-5% currency, as well as corruption in the We will create conditions for intensive because of raiding, overtaxing, lack of per annum, as the result of stopping National Bank, the Ministry of Finance development of the agrarian sector loans and access to market outlets. This inflation; and other financial institutions will be as one of the main resources of the shameful practice will be stopped. We prosecuted. simplify the terms and procedures Ukraine’s restoration. will have 2.5 million farms, as in Poland. for obtaining loans by Ukrainian We will define development and Family farms will have decent state comprehensive state support of farms, support, social and pension assistance. small and medium-sized agricultural NEW ENERGY POLICY enterprises as the main strategy of Immediately after the presidential agricultural policy. Today, 2.5 million election, a law on the introduction of farms operate in Poland, thus creating a single tax per hectare of land for farmers will be adopted. Being a significant component of We will create conditions for the rapid a strong Polish middle class. We have Ukraine’s national security, our energy development of renewable energy: 20 thousand working farmers; every independence will be identified as the solar, wind, geothermal etc. This year sees a decrease in their number major priority of our energy policy. means the priority and unhindered lending, the introduction of green technologies for production of electricity and heat. We will eliminate

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RESTORATION AND NEW QUALITY OF AGRICULTURAL LIFE

We will renew in villages programs for the construction of public roads, new high- quality modern schools, cultural establishments and kindergartens.

Affordable medicine - first aid stations or OPD with modern equipment and

necessary medicines - will be available in every village. HOBMM EKOHOMIMHMM KV We will restore interest-free lending for housing construction in the countryside, especially for young people, teachers, medical staff and cultural workers.

We will review the pension reform. As a result, pensioners in rural areas will receive significantly increased (almost double) pensions.

WE WILL PROTECT AGRICULTURAL LAND AS A NATIONAL TREASURE FOR REAL FARMERS AND FUTURE GENERATIONS

We will provide the state or community We will protect the right to own or lease with the opportunity to buy shares at land, and punishment for raiding will be market price from villagers willing to sell harsh and inevitable. them. Farmers, small and medium-sized We will make a complete inventory of agricultural producers who live and work agricultural land and adopt a strategy on their land will be granted an exclusive for its effective use. The agricultural right to purchase the land they lease at land that has been stolen from the state market price on the basis of long-term or people will be returned. Thieves will preferential loans. be brought to criminal liability. We guarantee the owners of land shares The barbaric exploitation of agricultural a fair quasi rent, as well as the right land will be stopped and effective to land for community workers of the control over crop rotation and land village and ATO veterans. processing technologies will be introduced. We will introduce criminal responsibility for the deliberate destruction of the quality of agricultural land in order to preserve the most precious resource of the Ukrainian nation.

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OPPORTUNITIES FOR WORK AND INCOME IN VILLAGES

We will introduce a long-term lending to farmers without collateral covered by risk insurance at 3 per cent interest per annum. Laws will be adopted to stimulate the development of agricultural co-operation, organic fruit and vegetable production, animal husbandry, as well as processing of agrarian raw materials.

Accounting, registration and control will be greatly simplified for family and small- scale farming. We will introduce training and advisory services.

Farmers, small and medium-sized agricultural producers will get easier access to trade networks, guaranteed by law.

ORGANIC AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION

Special attention will be paid to organic production. The lands used for organic 0 farming will receive a special status, and farmers will receive state support and tax incentives.

OPTIMAL SYSTEM OF TAXATION

We will reorganize tax authorities and We will introduce digital governance completely liquidate the Tax Militia. and prohibit the tax authorities from contacting taxpayers at the legislative We will liquidate 37 corruptogenic quasi­ level. p* taxes giving officials the opportunity to pressure the business, in particular, We will simplify the taxation system and state and court fees. These 37 quasi­ drastically reduce aggregate business % taxes constitute only 0.5% of budget rates. 7J income, while the work of entrepreneurs becomes dependent on officials.

Access of citizens to justice and property rights cannot be limited due to lack of the necessary amount of money.

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)U\AJlbHA In the global world, the boundaries we, Ukrainians, have lost it. Millions of LOKTPWHA SEIEr have long been absent. If a talented young people leave Ukraine and move person wants to live and work in any to other countries. country in the world, it’s possible to do so quickly and freely. The doors The New Social Doctrine will give of all countries for such a person us the opportunity to remedy this lVviuj. ~ are now open. The world’s biggest situation and create all conditions for hA t ''^S-e 'V > ^ T;- A -; • ■■ the full realization of the potential of « - J competition now is the one for strong • • rv.- Ukrainians in Ukraine! ' - and smart people, and as of today,

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We aim at gradually achieving the Revolution from 2004 to the end of average wage level in Poland expressed 2009, the average wage expressed in in dollars within the following five years. dollars has increased by 3.5 times. We Today, the average wage in Poland did it then and we will do it now! is 3.5 times higher than in Ukraine. At this moment you think that this is If we, Ukrainians, do not level our impossible, but you should open the average wage with the average wage of Poland, we will be left without our statistics of Ukraine in previous years, people in the next five years!!! and you will see that after the Orange

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FAIR PENSIONS In five years, we will increase the wages of We will eliminate non-market margins on physicians to the level of wages in Poland. medicines and arrange drug advertising. If we do not do this, we will be left without This will significantly, by times, reduce the doctors. price of medicines in Ukraine. We will introduce a new personalized The state will guarantee preservation of pension system instead of the old private retirement accounts with all its People in rural areas will be provided with A network of laboratories for state pay-as-you-go system, which we have resources. affordable high-quality care. It will not be monitoring over the quality of medicines today. This will become the basis for telemedicine, but care provided directly in pharmacies will be created. Severe After retirement, a person will be able establishing fair pensions. In the current by a qualified medical officer in a modern criminal liability will be introduced for to dispose of his private retirement system, an employer makes much larger outpatient clinic or medical and obstetric manufacturing and selling medicines of account at his or her own discretion. contributions to a pension fund over centre. substandard quality. a person’s whole working life than this If a person fails to spend money on Market for selling medicines will be A special support program for our person receives during his or her lifetime his or her retirement account within completely demonopolized. Ukrainian pharmaceutical manufacturers in the form of a pension. This injustice the lifetime, the amount remaining will will be implemented. The most important will be remedied. be inherited by members of his or her For the most important medicines, state medicines should be produced in Ukraine. regulation of prices will be introduced by Under the new system, pension family. This is a question not only of patient setting manufacturer’s marginal prices contributions will be deposited to a safety, but of the state’s national security. Private retirement accounts of people and maximum margin levels for resellers. private personal account of each person who have already retired or served in the state bank during the entire period out the required part of their work of employment. All these accumulated experience will be opened immediately retirement money will belong to a person after the adoption of the law on the and will be kept exclusively on his or her new pension system. These accounts CARE FOR PEOPLE WITH private account at the state bank. No will include all pension contributions one will be able to reduce its amount. for the entire period of employment. SPECIAL NEEDS Not even a penny will be taken away. These contributions will be adequately Each person’s retirement savings on the indexed with the definition of the terms of use. Within five years, a national program We will establish free medical insurance account at the state bank will be indexed “Barrier-free space” will be implemented for people with special needs at the annually, and the deposit interest will Such a pension reform will at least for people with special needs. expense of the state with the provision of be constantly accrued. This will lead to double pensions for those whose social the whole spectrum of medical services at We will introduce mechanisms of an increase in the amount of pension welfare is unfair. the highest level. money on each person’s retirement powerful motivation of entrepreneurs to account during the entire period of employ people with special needs. A tax Seriously ill, disabled people with special employment. rate reduction scale will be introduced needs will be provided with round-the- depending on the number of people with clock permanent foster care services at special needs working at the enterprise. the place of residence at public expense. AFFORDABLE MEDICINE Enterprises created by people with special needs and employing people with disabilities will be exempt from taxation. The so-called “medical reform” that was The state will make health insurance People with disabilities will be provided conducted is another form of reducing contributions for underage children, with guaranteed social benefits at the the Ukrainian population. pensioners, people with special needs level of average wages. and disabled persons. In 2020, compulsory medical insurance will be introduced at the expense of According to a European model, employers’ funds, while simultaneously emergency medical services will be reducing the tax burden on their provided completely free of charge for RESTORATION OF JUSTICE enterprises. each call. This means that an ambulance car will be equipped with all the necessary Medical insurance will include the full Laws that guaranteed social protection until 2014 to Afghans, Chernobyl victims medicines and professional physicians, and other groups of people, and which were cynically repealed in 2014-2018, will provision of every citizen with highest- and not with paramedics. quality medical services at all levels, be restored. The state budget for 2019 will be amended to allocate funds for the medicines, as well as disease prevention. financial support of these updated provisions.

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FAIR TARIFFS UKRAINIAN SPIRITUALITY AND CULTURE

In the first month of the new president’s have enough of our own gas for our own Ukrainian culture is our invaluable financing on the basis of a broad public term, gas prices will be reduced by half, needs. national heritage. This is our Ukrainian discussion of support for our cultural which also means lowering of heating Taking into account extraction, taxes, world, which requires special and careful needs. and hot water supply tariffs. transportation and 30% of the industry’s attitude, protection and development. We will continue the practice of allocating This is our unique national code, a cultural We will direct our own gas exclusively profit, today the cost of our Ukrainian gas sufficient funds for financing Ukrainian code that identifies us as Ukrainians in to the needs of the population. State is 3.5 hryvnias per cubic meter, and they cinema, books, Ukrainian content on radio the world. enterprises produce 16.4 billion cubic sell it to people for 8.5 hryvnias! Almost and television. meters of gas. The population consumes 2.5 times more expensive! We will stop We will finally do what the cultural figures For me, Ukrainian culture and the 15.8 billion cubic meters of gas. So, we this corruption! are dreaming about - Ukrainian culture are one. We will will be funded not by residual principle. do our utmost and, in the first place, We will modernize Ukrainian culture: while will financially support the Ukrainian HIGH-QUALITY AND AFFORDABLE EDUCATION preserving traditional platforms, we will language in all spheres without exception. create absolutely new modern ones for Together, we will adopt the Law “On the presentation of our unique cultural Ensuring the Functioning of the Ukrainian Education and science is the major There is nothing more important than the heritage both in Ukraine and abroad. Language as a State Language”. priority of the New Course for Ukraine. overall development of our children. This A law on patronage will be adopted. Not We will support the successful launch And this strategic priority will be secured is our nation’s success. by the state’s financial resources and only will we reduce the burden on the of the Ukrainian Book Institute, which The state will have special programs for organizational capabilities. state budget, but we will also make the is currently engaged in replenishing the development and education for especially culture financing system more flexible: funds of Ukrainian libraries with books by Education in Ukraine, from primary to gifted children. state cultural institutions will be able to Ukrainian authors. higher education, will be free, as in all We will carry out a complete receive support from private institutions, The Ukrainian state will support the developed European countries. The and business that supports culture will modernization of all educational Orthodox Church of Ukraine which access of children and young people to all institutions at the expense of foreign obtain preferences. levels of education cannot depend on the unites Ukrainians and will necessarily export lending for a term of at least 20 wealth of the parents. We will ensure the Artistic youth, creative people, talented receive patriarchate. We will protect our years and at an annual interest rate of no musicians, artists and writers will be church, in particular by law; we will foster absolute equality of all children in access more than 3%. to the most modern and high-quality supported by special scholarships and understanding and tolerance among educational institutions. In five years, we will raise the wages grants. representatives of different religions and of educators, namely tutors, teachers, denominations. Financing of education will be carried out We will provide sufficient and reliable librarians and lecturers, to the average funding for the newly established We will launch two major programs aimed on the basis of a system providing fora European level. This is one of the single school tax for legal entities and Ukrainian Institute and expand powerful at the restoration and conservation of major priorities of the educational individuals. At the same time, this will centres of Ukrainian presence and culture unique architectural monuments: “Castles program, which will restore respect in the world. of Ukraine” and “Temples of Ukraine”. not become a burden for entrepreneurs, for the profession of teacher, lecturer as the overall tax burden on them will and scholar, and will attract the best We will create the Fund for financing We will complete our Ukrainian Louvre, be reduced. Taking into account the specialists to the pedagogical activity. of foreign language translations of the Mystetskyi Arsenal, and modernize the collected funds, we will introduce a single best Ukrainian literary works, which will National Museum of Ukraine! We will introduce a separate, multi­ standard for payment for education in support the best foreign specialists in purpose financing system for science to For the first time in the history of line with European standards. It doesn’t translating them into world languages stimulate the development of university- independent Ukraine, we will place the matter where children are going to study, and popularizing the Ukrainian cultural based innovation clusters. Such a state’s emphasis on the policy of active in a private or state institution, money will heritage. follow them. system will contribute to the efficient development of tourism by familiarizing use of scientific research and innovative We will finance Ukrainian culture at ourselves with our historical, cultural and We will resume free extracurricular technologies for rapid economic growth. the level of UAFI 8-9 billion annually, architectural heritage. programs for children (sports sections responsibly and transparently directing and schools, circles, art studios, music Medical facilities will be restored in all schools, etc.) through the introduction of educational institutions, thus ensuring new standards for financing of education. control and protection of children’s health.

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ENVIRONMENTAL SECURITY OF PEOPLE

The entire civilized world is now shifting We will introduce a moratorium on towards green transformation and deforestation at the legislative level and introduction of the circular economy. will renew the afforestation program, This means that, without exception, which was in operation in our country all industrial and household waste is until 1991. In 1991, afforestation of the reused or recycled using the latest, territory of Ukraine was 21%, and now it environmentally friendly technologies. is only 15%. We will bring back the 1991 The functioning of the circular standard. economy provides additional income for countries, as well as perfectly clean The amount of greenhouse gas emissions air, water and land. Immediately after will be significantly reduced through the the presidential election, we will start use of “green” technologies in all sectors gradually transferring the Ukrainian of the economy with the involvement of economy into a circular model and ensure international climate finance. economic growth without harming the New standards will be set to reduce environment. the maximum permissible content of An international audit of all sources carbon monoxide in exhaust gases of of air, water and land pollution in our automobiles, and the “green transport” country will be immediately conducted. strategy will be supported. All enterprises polluting the environment We will create additional conditions for will receive preferential long-term loans implementing green and smart city at an annual interest rate of 3% for development programs: an increase in upgrading emission control systems and green areas, parks, and the introduction installing online monitoring sensors. If of infrastructure for bicycles, electric such modernization is not carried out vehicles and public transport. within the established minimum time, such enterprises will be closed or subject We will introduce a sorting and to significant fines. environmentally friendly, non-waste, profitable waste recycling technology We will create a branching network of (pyrolysis) across our country to exempt laboratories for monitoring the quality it from landfills. Ukraine will be cleared of of drinking water and food. In a short rubbish! time, genetically modified products, unsafe water and low-quality food will The government’s priority will be be removed from the market. We will not popularization of green energy among allow anyone else to poison us and our the population and small and medium children with inconsumable junk. businesses. We will stimulate the development of energy cooperatives We will introduce criminal liability for and increase financing of state programs those who produce or sell low-quality for energy-efficient modernization and water or food. winterization of people’s houses. In case of non-compliance with We will introduce the best European environmental norms, the state will environmental standards and implement provide a person with compensation the UN sustainable development goals in for losses associated with deteriorating Ukraine. health at the expense of those who violate these environmental standards.

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5. NEW YOUTH POLICY - w*L- ~~ *

£3 « FB on * NEW JOBS r 1 The New Economic Strategy for Ukraine Substantial tax incentives will be which we offer will boost production granted to employers who give jobs to and help create millions of new jobs graduates of educational institutions. with decent wages, including for young Hundreds of thousands of jobs will people. be created for young people willing to engage in entrepreneurship on the V> ft basis of microfinance.

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MICROFINANCE OF THE NEW ENTREPRENEURSHIP

We will implement a long-term Anyone willing to engage in microfinance program for young entrepreneurship will be able to choose people and middle class for all types a ready-made business plan at the bank, of small businesses. The microfinance open a credit line and start working. program is one of the most efficient systems in the modern world! Professor The bank will not have the right to hand Muhammad Yunus received the Nobel money to a person. All financing will be carried out exclusively by targeted Prize for inventing and developing the microcredit system. After the transfers according to the components presidential election, the microfinance of the business plan under the complete control of the bank. program for young people and anyone willing to engage in entrepreneurship The return of microcredit and the will be brought to life on a large scale! accrued interest under the control A special law will be adopted to ensure of the bank begins when the new the microfinance program. enterprise becomes profitable.

According to this law, every commercial To provide commercial banks with bank of Ukraine will be obliged to microfinance resources, the law will establish a microfinance department envisage a system of refinancing and create a data bank of tens of commercial banks from the NBU. thousands of business plans that The microfinance program will allow have undergone a banking survey. in the short term to create millions of The volume of one microcredit cannot jobs and restore the middle class of exceed the equivalent of USD 100 000. entrepreneurs in Ukraine, which has Such microcredits will be provided on been fully destroyed over the last five a long-term basis, without collateral - years. under mandatory risk insurance and no more than at 3% per annum

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Affordable housing does not mean for the family and will not ruin its cheap, low-quality housing. It means financial life; high-quality housing which can be if the family members who are repaying owned or used by the majority of the ✓ ho»m*kyi*c yKPAiw the mortgage have temporarily lost country’s population! *1 their jobs, then no one will have To solve the housing problem in the right to immediately take the HAUIOHA/IbHMH (D0PYM Ukraine: apartment. Adequate time will be provided for finding a new job, and for \ cTPATErm a mortgage insurance fund will be that period of time, the payment of the MMPYTA established; mortgage loan will be suspended % k l 5E3riEKM V! a mortgage loan will secure the It will take some time to search for a purchase of an apartment without a new job, and at this time, the mortgage down payment covered by special risk repayment will be suspended. insurance; We will “liberate” the construction i-S after adjusting the policy of the sector by removing bureaucratic National Bank of Ukraine and stopping shackles. Because of numerous inflation, the interest rate on loans, requirements and permissions, builders *F including mortgages, will be no more are forced to hand over up to 50% of than 3% per annum; the cost price of the object to corrupt a mortgage loan will be issued for a officials. We will immediately stop it by period of up to 30 years, depending adopting a relevant law together with on the decision of the family buying a the builders, which will enable them house. A monthly installment for the to work without corruption. This will mortgage repayment will be affordable significantly reduce housing costs. 'fs

SUPPORT FOR FAMILIES WHICH GIVE UKRAINE CHILDREN

Today in Ukraine, the death rate is twice second child, and UAH 150 000 for the the birth rate. We will do our best to stop third and subsequent children. The one­ this process. time payments will be made in the first week after child birth. For this purpose, first and foremost, we will bring back benefits for the birth of The state will provide many families a child that we had before. UAH 50 000 with special comprehensive support for the first child, UAH 100 000 for the programs.

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CONTENTS NEW COURSE FOR UKRAINE IS NEW 1. NEW STRATEGY FOR PEACE AND SECURITY 7 OPPORTUNITIES FOR EVERYONE! STRONG DIPLOMACY 7 STRONG ARMY 8 REINTEGRATION AND RESTITUTION WE, UKRAINIANS, HAVE ALWAYS RESPECTED OF TERRITORIES FREED FROM OCCUPATION 9 RECOVERY OF DAMAGES FROM RUSSIA 10 OUR HOMELAND, AS WELL AS OUR HOMES AND UKRAINE’S ACCESSION TO NATO 10 2. NEW PEOPLE’S CONSTITUTION 13 PARENTS. AND ONLY TOGETHER WE WILL BE ABLE 3. NEW ECONOMIC STRATEGY 17 TO PUT AN END TO THE TURMOIL IN OUR COUNTRY. FINANCIAL STABILITY AND AFFORDABLE CREDITING 18 NEW ENERGY POLICY 18 AGRICULTURAL SECTOR AND LAND RELATIONS REFORM 19 EACH OF US WANTS CHANGE! THE WHOLE NATION RESTORATION AND NEW QUALITY OF AGRICULTURAL LIFE 20 OPPORTUNITIES FOR WORK AND INCOME IN VILLAGES 23 SEEKS TO SEE ANOTHER UKRAINE - A HAPPY, 4. NEW SOCIAL DOCTRINE 25 PROSPEROUS AND SUCCESSFUL COUNTRY. THIS IS EUROPEAN WAGES 25 FAIR PENSIONS 26 A VERY IMPORTANT CHOICE! AFFORDABLE MEDICINE 26 CARE FOR PEOPLE WITH SPECIAL NEEDS 27 FAIR TARIFFS 28 WE HAVE REPEATEDLY PROVED OURSELVES AND HIGH-QUALITY AND AFFORDABLE EDUCATION 28 UKRAINIAN SPIRITUALITY AND CULTURE 29 THE WHOLE WORLD THAT WE ARE CAPABLE OF ENVIRONMENTAL SECURITY OF PEOPLE 31 BIG CHANGES. IN 1991, WE UNITED TO REGAIN 5. NEW YOUTH POLICY 33 NEW JOBS 33 OUR INDEPENDENCE - AND WE DID IT! IN 2014, MICROFINANCE OF THE NEW ENTREPRENEURSHIP 34 WE RALLIED TO REPEL THE ENEMY - AND WE DID AFFORDABLE HOUSING 36 SUPPORT FOR FAMILIES WHICH GIVE UKRAINE CHILDREN 36 IT! IN 2019, WE WILL UNITE ONCE AGAIN TO MAKE UKRAINE AND UKRAINIANS HAPPY, PROSPEROUS

AND CONFIDENT IN A PEACEFUL FUTURE - AND WE

WILL DO IT!

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