Despite the war, the modern
Ukrainian bureaucracy continues to demonstrate vivid examples of stunning
contradictions in its activities! Officials force citizens to take actions that
they themselves later reject!The Lubny City Council
website has a public information request form:
https://lubnyrada.gov.ua/…/oformlennia-informatsiinoho… The form states that
the request is addressed to the mayor of Lubny, Oleksandr Hrytsaienko. However,
when submitting this request (using the form posted on the website), the dear
Mr. Mayor provides the following response: “although the mayor is part of
the local government system, he is not a local government body… and therefore
does not possess public information and… cannot be its manager… we refuse to
satisfy your request.” Why, then, does he force citizens to address him
with these requests?!!!This is not the only case
of internal contradictions in the activities of Ukrainian bureaucrats in the
field of providing access to public information. But today it is certainly the
most interesting example of the thinking of overly creative officials that we
know.Such interesting examples
can be found during the monitoring of the project “Promoting Participatory
Governance in Eastern Ukraine”, which is being implemented with the
financial support of NED.
