“There is a roof, but the keys were not given...”. Unfinished decentralization…

Collage by Olena Zelenina using a painting by Irina Kalyuzhnaya..

“You know, reform is like a house built halfway: there seems to be a roof, the walls are standing, but the windows are covered with plastic sheet, and the draft blows everything off the table. We have learned to take responsibility for our village or town, but we still haven't been given all the keys to our own house,” — this is exactly how, with a bitter smile and warm confidence in his voice, the Avangard settlement head Serhiy Khrustovskyi describes the current state of decentralization.

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