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Europe & Central Asia
Ukraine: Lawmakers fail to pass decentralization legislation
Ukraine’s parliament rejected an important bill on government decentralization on Dec. 6, and reform-minded lawmakers then had to scramble to remove another bill on the issue from the agenda to stop it being rejected too. […]