Analyst: Look for Ukrainian political crisis in spring 2017
Andrei Zolotarev, head of the Ukrainian Research Center’s Third Sector, notes that the Ukrainian government cut back on expenditures in 2016, but the savings will only delay the onset of a political crisis
Corrupt budgets always breed discontent, and Ukraine is headed for a public debt crisis that is largely due to corruption in government. To cut the links between corruption and public services, constitutional reform is needed to allow the people to vote directly on the heads of the executive, legislative, judicial and procuratorial branches of government and expose corrupt practices of public officials. See the Charter for Permanent Peace and Development.