It's cold in the apartments, but I save electricity and protect Ukraine's energy system from overload by dressing warmer and putting bottles of warm water in my bed instead of using electric heaters.
The boss insists on the necessity of finding a detached house instead of an office with autonomous electricity and heating. The task is not easy and I have involved a realtor in the search. Perhaps the constant reduction of business in the country will allow us to occupy such premises instead of those who will not survive the struggle with the state.
Today there was a big meeting and no one heard any complaints about them, which is a good sign. I am still collecting and analyzing information about the number of cases and the workload on people, and it is obvious that we need at least two more lawyers and an assistant.
At another time I would be happy about such growth, but given that my specialization is crisis management, bankruptcy and liquidation, this means that everything is only getting worse. In this we are somewhat similar to undertakers who rub their hands during wars and epidemics.
However, undertakers have many more clients. The lack of iron of weapons is compensated by the meat of soldiers. Clashes between the population and representatives of mobilization centers are increasingly common.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MKll9YGnew Recently, raids have been carried out by large groups accompanied by police. But the mobilization still goes badly. She is also badly affected by injustice and corruption.
The Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine is conducting a large-scale official investigation into the heads of prosecutor's offices who may be receiving pensions under false disability. The actions of the state body are related to the corruption scandal about "false" pensions of prosecutors, which broke out last week.
At that time, Censor.net journalists published an investigation in which they claimed that half a hundred prosecutors of the Khmelnytsky region, including the regional prosecutor, could issue a disability certificate without having legal grounds for it.
According to journalists of the publication, Tetyana Krupa, the head of the medical and social expert commission of the Khmelnytsky region, who is being held in custody on suspicion of illegal enrichment, helped them to do this. Now journalists, as well as several leaders of anti-corruption public organizations, have reason to believe that Khmelnytsky region is not the only one.
According to the head of the Anti-Corruption Center, only these four dozen heads of prosecutor's offices "received more than 11 million hryvnias in pensions last year." "And this is only the tip of the iceberg. Because there are a whole bunch of heads of various departments and divisions. And there are also judges, the police, the State Security Bureau, among whom this phenomenon is also common".
https://www.bbc.com/ukrainian/articles/cx2ywj7w030oProsecutor General of Ukraine Andriy Kostin announced that he is resigning after a meeting of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine with the participation of President Volodymyr Zelensky, which, according to Kostin, discussed an "obviously immoral situation" with fake disabilities of state officials.
https://t.me/pgo_gov_ua/26834It was also decided to review the decisions of the medical and social expert commissions regarding the establishment of disabilities for officials of the relevant state bodies and to eliminate the commissions altogether by the end of next year.
https://sud.ua/uk/news/publication/313698-msek-budut-likvidirovany-s-31-dekabrya-a-po-pensionnym-vyplatam-po-invalidnosti-dolzhnostnym-litsam-provedut-audit-reshenie-snboIn fact, it is not only about money. Since disability is the basis for exemption from military service and allows travel abroad, it is obtained primarily for this purpose and bribes reach significant sizes. Moreover, recently there has been a secondary social inversion of the disabled. If earlier being disabled was an abnormality and meant a lower status in society, now disability has nothing to do with health and, on the contrary, demonstrates the high status of the holder of a disability document, who has the opportunity to acquire it. Although against the background of the global rise of abnormalities in modern society throughout the world, disability is not in the first place, in Ukraine it acquires a very special value, making "disabled people" a kind of "untouchable". We must admit that there is no corruption in Ukraine. Corruption is an ulcer on a healthy body. But when instead of a healthy body there is one big ulcer, this is no longer an abnormality. This is such a social system.
It is not for nothing that scientists were awarded this year's Nobel Prize for "explaining in a new way why there are such large differences in well-being between nations." One of the important explanations provided by this year's laureates is persistent differences in societal institutions. They have proven that societies with poor rule of law and institutions that exploit the population do not generate growth or change for the better. Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson found a clear chain of cause and effect. Institutions that were created to exploit the masses are bad for long-term growth, while those that establish fundamental economic freedoms and the rule of law are good for it. Political and economic institutions also tend to be durable. Even if extractive economic systems provide short-term benefits for the ruling elite, introducing more inclusive institutions, reducing extractiveness and the rule of law will create long-term benefits for all.
For now Ukraine's population has dropped by 10 million, or roughly a quarter, since the start of the full-scale russian invasion. This was stated by the head of the Eastern Europe Department of the United Nations Population Fund, Florence Bauer, during a press conference in Geneva (Switzerland).
This decline was the result of the departure of refugees, falling birth rates and war casualties.
https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1h/k1ha4tinhk
