People's deputies of Ukraine from April 1, will receive a stripped-down wage of 6, 109 thousand hryvnia (About 280 dollars at current official rate), said the head of the Verkhovna Rada Volodymyr Groisman.
according to the speaker, before April 1, acted salary 8, 526 thousand hryvnias (391 USD at current official rate)." I have signed a decree According to which from 1 April wages of the people's deputies is 6109 hryvnias ", - he wrote.
Groisman explained that, Under article 33 of the law of Ukraine " On status of people's Deputy of Ukraine ", the salary of people's deputies equated to the salaries of members of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine. According to the Cabinet, in 2015, the monthly wages of the people's deputies of Ukraine is charged in the amount of the salary of the members of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, that is today 6, 109 thousand.
before the people's Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of the previous convocation, member of the political Council of the party "Batkivshchyna" Andriy Pavlovsky said that the deputies of the current convocation since April, increased wages tripled. The Agency "UKRINFORM" referring to a member of the Department on problems of regulation and organization of work of the Ukrainian Parliament Dmitry Shlemko informed that the people's deputies April raised wages to 17, 5 thousand hryvnia (About $ 760). However, Groisman said that the data show a threefold increase in the salaries of the deputies is not true.
Ukraine is now in fact remains on the brink of default. In the country increases unemployment, the national currency over one year fell by more than 3 times. In the end, according to the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine, in January 2015 the average salary in the country amounted 3455 hryvnia, or About $ 160. This is one of the lowest figures in the EU.
About 70% of Ukrainian citizens in the process sociologicheskogo research told of dissatisfaction with their lives, noting that events in Russia are developing in the wrong direction." Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk said that in 2015, the country faces the challenge to survive, " it will be hard to absolutely all social strata ".
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