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In the next 24 hours or so,
the never-ending shuffling behind the Ukrainian political curtain will announce
a new Prime Minister, Cabinet of Ministers and (wafer thin) majority coalition.
Following the unveiling, it
will not come as any surprise, should Vyacheslav Kyrylenko be
removed from his office as Minsiter of Culture, being replaced by somebody
like Evgene Nyschuk.
Indeed those within the
Ukrainian cultural sphere subjected to the whims of Mr Kyrylenko will
undoubtedly raise a glass (or two) at his departure – particularly those State
financed entities that saw budgets cut by 10% for reasons unknown and
unexplained.
There is surely no public record of such cuts being a
Cabinet of Ministers decision, nor subject to Verkhovna Rada debate. The
cuts therefore, prima facie, the arbitrary decision of the Ministry
of Culture for reasons undisclosed.
A reader may therefore ponder,
as no doubt many State financed cultural entities do, what happened to that 10%
of their budget?
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