On Tuesday 17 January 2012, in Housing department of Chernivtsi city council was held a conference with heads of Condominiums (Condominium homeowners association) on problem issues concerning creation and functioning of condominiums.

21 January 2012 was held an interim working meeting of the School of public control, which started in November 2011. During the four-day training, civic activists of Lviv region received basic theoretical knowledge for conducting campaign of public control of local government entities and officials. During two months participants of the School tried to put into practice their knowledge in a field of public control and access to public information, and to conduct monitoring of public activity ...

Lately was published a manual “Condominiums: a practical guide”, which will be useful to everyone connected to creation of condominiums, Condominium association, and heads of associations.

Let all concerns and troubles will be left in the Old year, and the New 2012 will bring you plenty of brilliant plans, new achievements and professional victories! Goodness, peace and prosperity for you and all your family!

To evaluate the effectiveness of local government in Rivne, Civic Network OPORA conducted an expert poll from 12 to 20 December. The poll participated 30 local experts. Between them were: representatives of NGOs, mass media, entrepreneurs and employees in humanitarian sphere. The poll consisted of questions for determination of expert opinion on achievements of Rivne city council, executive committee and the mayor in socio-economic and humanitarian spheres; to determine the level of transpar...

After long discussions the community and the politicians came to an agreement – the land on which building is situated (building spot), should be in condominium ownership without any additional actions, and the surrounding area should be in permanent use of a condominium.

The new scheme of calculating the tariff for cold water, which is to be introduced by the National Service Committee, will lead to the situation when 97% of population will pay for the other 3% and also for the mismanagement of municipal services.

In November, the Verkhovna Rada approved the law on the law on election of the people’s deputies. Changing election legislature for needs of the certain political force has already been practiced before. This technology is known as “election engineering” in science.