Re: One more way of wasting money

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: : The problem of Ukraine is that some its current government officials are busy with inventing ways of rather wasting than earning money. : : Under lack of the budget, the expected result of such inventions is higher demand for non-Ukrainian production, poverty, corruption. Did foreign competitors pay for it to those officials as usual? : : New state agency to monitor InternetBy Peter ByrnePost Staff Writer : : President Leonid Kuchma's recent decree ordering the : : creation of a new agency to guard against unauthorized : : disclosure of confidential state information may be an : : attempt by the government to control the dissemination of : : information on the Internet, observers say. : : The decree, signed in mid-April, set up the Department : : of Special Communications Systems and Defense of Information : : under the auspices of the State Security Service (SBU) and : : ordered it to draft the agency's charter and submit it for : : government approval by May 10. : : The presidential order required that all agencies and : : enterprises that process, transmit, gather or store : : confidential state information comply with instructions of : : the new security body. : : SBU chief Leonid Derkach said April 26 that one of the : : new department's primary functions would be to monitor and : : safeguard confidential state information circulated over theInternet. : : "It is common practice for security services in all : : countries to monitor electronic communications," Derkach : : said, adding that his agents will take the "necessary : : measures" as soon as they detect violations. : : The new project came on the heels of a series of reports : : in Western media on Ukraine's alleged misuse of : : International Monetary Fund aid, which Derkach had said was : : triggered by unauthorized disclosure of secret information. : : At a March 24 press conference, Derkach said that a : : confidential parliamentary report on the Ukrainian National : : Bank's operations with its reserves, which described the : : alleged aid misuse scheme, became available to Western media : : after it was posted in the Internet by a local news agency. : : The latest presidential decree was the government's : : second attempt in the past six months to monitor circulation : : of information on the Internet. : : Last fall, parliament overwhelmingly rejected a : : government bill that would have required Internet providers : : to purchase and install - at their own expense - special : : equipment that would monitor information traffic. : : The bill was voted down after Internet companies : : complained that the measure would effectively allow the SBU : : access to all information exchanged over the Internet inUkraine. : : Observers also expressed worry that such control would : : further limit Ukrainian media's ability to expressindependent views. : : "We don't want to see Ukraine's information space : : Belarussified," said lawmaker Oleksandr Yemets, referring to : : widespread suppression of freedom of speech by government : : authorities in neighboring Belarus. : : While international media watchdogs describe the state : : of freedom of speech in Ukraine as being on a par with that : : in Belarus, local analysts say the Internet has remained : : virtually the only reliable medium, which allows : : dissemination of opinions on economic and political : : developments in Ukraine that differ from the officialviewpoint. : : An estimated 100,000 to 200,000 Ukrainians presently : : have access to the Internet, and that number is expected to : : increase four-fold by the end of 2000. Presently, the .ua : : Internet domain includes more than 7,500 Web sites, with : : Kyiv accounting for about 35 percent of all Internet : : services provided in Ukraine. : : Ukrainian legislation regarding media and communications : : does not mention the Internet. But analysts say that : : Kuchma's latest decree would effectively allow the : : government to create regulations for the Internet without : : risking a new failure during their debate in parliament. : : International organizations, which keep tabs on Internet : : development worldwide, have noted that restrictions on : : Internet access tend to occur in countries, whose : : governments have a poor record on freedom of speech. : : Last year, the Paris-based international press freedom : : group, Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF) issued a report : : naming 45 nations as Enemies of the Internet for the : : limitations on Internet access imposed by their governments. : : "In line with their repressive approach toward other : : media, some governments do not allow their citizens to : : provide or use the Internet freely," read the report. : : RSF in particular mentioned attempts by Russian : : authorities last year to impose control over electronic : : communications in the country. The proposed measure, which : : would have allowed the Russian Federal Security Service to : : secretly hook up to Internet users under the pretext of : : carrying out unspecified "operational measures" was voteddown by parliament. : : Wasyl, : Government are the regulators and legislators of the game. Failure to comply with the rules in any genera is a breach of the law. The question then becomes "Is the law just and fair in upholding and enforcing the Sovereignty Of Ukraine". Ukraine is the objective here. : Never before in history has any Western European Nation had to create, from scratch, a whole new constitution. The rules by which any citizen of any nation exist and subsist are created by their countries respective government. In Every case government Is the gaming commision "for better or for worse". : Frankly, the unautherized disemenation of confidential government information undermines foremost Ukraine, whether profit has been made by some party or not, and it is a crime I want that someone punished for to the full extent that the law for. Now is the crutial time, this is go time baby. What is decided in this current five-year term of President Leonid Kuchma's service to Ukraine will shape Ukraine far beyond what any other individual will ever be able to do. It is precisely because we, Ukraine - as a People and a Nation, are starting from scratch. : Look at the Jewish, so haughty in protecting their rights and rooting their causes, Bravo! Let us Be Ukrainian. We are unto God. The Ukrainian nation and its peoples are like no other. It is an aphrodisiac it is so good. It is, just be sure, not to give the golden gooose away at regular goose price. We've got to watch to not sell out of desperation and compromise the future of this Great Nation of ours. : If one lives a measure of life surely they have discovered that one cannot do anything without inconveniencing others. I am sure many of our Ukrainian bretheren Are Suffering, and Hopelessness inhabits their hearts. It is to love these courageous Ukranians and remember their sacrafice when the laying of the stone of Soverign Ukraine occurs. It is upon them this is built. We have come too far as a people, We have history. : Let us not throw the baby away with the bathwater for immediate gains. We owe it to ourselves, as a People, to hang in. Life isn't easy. As soon as the gains are realized, tens of millions of Ukrainians will be able to discover for themselves that Prosperity in its Americanized understanding, does not cure all of life's woes.

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