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Tony Blair, a former British Prime Minister has continued within the political arena, but has gone global. The man who successfully turned the left wing Labour Party into a more user friendly and electable "New Labour" succeeded by being all things to all men. Since retiring from British politics he has been popping up in all parts of the globe involving himself in all manner of activities, often with some of the most dubious dictators and other influencial world elite. As a declared Christian he seeks to make the world a better place, but he manages to make for himself a neat pile of dollars along the way.

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At a time when Ukraine's economy (like many other countries) is under pressure, is it a priority to allocate significant funds to the restoration of accommodation used by senior polititicians?
Please see this article from the peoplefirst.org.ua website:-

As the Administration of the President recently reported to the media, the country will spend over 50 million UAH (13.5 million USD) on the maintenance of government residencies in Koncha-Zaspa and Puscha-Vodytsia. The residencies in question include the mansions of the current Prime-Minister, Chairman of Parliament, former presidents, as well as other deputies and officials. Whilst increasing the financing for maintaining bureaucrats' mansions, the President and Prime-Minister of Ukraine have also announced continued cuts to social expenses; requesting that the citizens of Ukraine understand that these are unavoidable due to the state budget deficit(1).
At the same time this year’s budget provides more money for deputies mansions than for the development of local self-administration projects (26 million UAH / 3.2 million USD). The ‘mansion budget’ is also equal to the sum designated for the construction of housing for soldiers and civil servants(2). Having secured the financing for their mansions, officials seem unconcerned about the fact that in 2012 the minimum living income has been set at only 1017 UAH (127 USD) per person per month and minimum wage is 1073 UAH (134 USD) per person per month(3).
It remains to be seen whether Ukrainians will bear the cuts to social benefits in the context of uninterrupted financial support of state officials' villas.

(1)http://ukranews.com/ru//news/ukraine/2012/01/24/62465
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(3) аЧДФЕР-2012: ъЙ ГЮБФДХ "ЯНЖЁЮКЭМХИ" | еЙНМНЛЁВМЮ ОПЮБДЮ