Wage arrears in Ukraine exceeded 150 million dollars
On December 1, wage arrears in Ukraine has reached 2, 366 billion (150, $ 6 million), informs the State statistics service of the country. The biggest debt recorded in the industrial sector, where the Duty of employers reached 1, 3 billion UAH. Workers transportation and warehousing not paid about UAH 300 thousand, the staff of the scientific and technical institutions and organizations - 123 thousand. The duty of health Workers amounted to 193 thousand UAH, presumably the same is not paid to teachers and school teachers - 192 thousand UAH, reports TASS. As reported in the report of the state statistics service wage arrears in the Donetsk region exceeded UAH 1 billion in Lugansk - 347 million. On Thursday the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine raised the government's debt ceiling by the end of 2014 161, 4 billion UAH 968, UAH 35 billion due to the devaluation of the hryvnia. On Tuesday, the Minister of Finance of Ukraine Natalie Jaresko said that next year Ukraine will direct defense and repayment of the foreign debt of 30% of the costs. The head of the National Bank of Ukraine Valeria Gontareva said that the reduction of the hryvnia last week not fully connected with the fall of the Russian ruble. The leader of the faction of the Radical party in the Ukrainian Parliament Oleg Lyashko criticized this message, calling the head of the national Bank of Ukraine " fool ". On the first day of the week the national Bank of Ukraine 14. 00 am on Monday for the third time since the beginning of December has updated the historical minimum of the official exchange rate of hryvnia to us dollar at the level of fifteen, 8544. As said before, the Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, according to the information at the beginning of December, Ukraine paid on foreign debt, as well as among them, taking into account the debt of Naftogaz, 14 billion dollars. Kyiv received different types of foreign financial assistance in the amount of $ 9 billion. Yatsenyuk has considered the merit of his Cabinet that the foreign debt of the country this year happened to hold at the level of 72 billion dollars. Recall, Ukraine is in a difficult political crisis that affects so not the best state of the economy and its budget. The national Bank of Ukraine did not exclude inflation to 19% in 2014. In addition, the lack of the capital budget of Ukraine has reached 3, UAH 2 billion (274 million). While the decline of Ukraine's GDP in the first six months of this year compared with the corresponding period of 2013 amounted to 3%.