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The Ukrainian government has dismissed Maskym Nefyodov from the post of Deputy Economic Development and Trade Minister and appointed him head of the nation's state customs service , Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman said on July 5. Nefyodov announced his top five priorities. They are making data electronic, changing personnel, improving customs equipment, integrating into the European customs community and drafting the customs legal code. All these tasks will be pursued simultaneously, he said in an interview with the Ukrainska Pravda online outlet Specifically, Ukraine’s 26 customs bodies will be consolidated into five or six, he said. Customs officials will be hired on short- and mid-term contracts that will be renewed based on performance, he said. And as many of 30% of personnel can be reorganized in the next three months, he said.
Klitschko meets with Giuliani to complain about Zelenskiy Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said he met with Rudy Giuliani, a close adviser to US President Trump, on July 31 to discuss Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s attempts to remove him from office. “Today there is the threat that Kyiv residents will be deprived of their right to elect a person who has certain responsibilities,” Klitschko told the Ukrinform news agency the next day. “The methods of (former President Viktor) Yanukovych are being mobilized, in, which the mayor is pushed aside and a person will be appointed from above. If someone has the desire to become the Kyiv city head, please, there are elections. That’s the single democratic direction where the post of Kyiv city head can be achieved. Not an appointment from above.”
2.3 Polls & Sociology
As many as 77% of Russians believe that people must register their marriages , a poll conducted by the All-Russia Public Opinion Research Center indicates. "Most Russians (77%) share the opinion that people must register their marriage when starting a family. This view is particularly widespread among people over 60 years of age (84%)," the pollster said in a statement. "Another 11% of those surveyed have a similar opinion, though they said that an official marriage was not necessary for those starting a family. This opinion is widely held among young people aged 18 to 24 years (17%) and 25 to 34 years (18%)," the pollster added. According to the poll’s participants, the most appropriate age for women to get married is 24 (an average based on answers containing exact figures, 94%), while for men it is 27. In response to a divorce-related question, 56% of those polled said that every couple should make a decision about breaking up or preserving their marriage based on the family situation. A total of 30% believe that a divorce should take place when a family has actually broken up, while ten% strongly oppose the idea of divorce regardless of the reason.
Most Russians regard their dream job as working in a giant state-run company like Gazprom , nearly three decades after the collapse of communism ushered in an era of capitalism. Four out of ten Russians identified the government-controlled natural gas export monopoly as their preferred employer in a survey carried out by the VTsIOM pollster, which is also run by the state. State-owned Russian Railways JSC was the employer of choice for 23% of the 1,600 people surveyed, followed by oil giant Rosneft PJSC and Sberbank PJSC, the country’s largest bank. Lukoil PJSC was the only non-state company in the top six, with 12% listing Russia’s number two oil producer along with airline Aeroflot PSJC as their favored career choice. The margin of error was 2.5%. Russians named a good salary and a company that fulfills its promises as the most important qualities they seek from an employer, according to VTsIOM. Gazprom, best known abroad for disrupting supplies to Europe during periodic spats between the Kremlin and Ukraine, had 466,000
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