Yushchenko approved the budget deficit for 2009.

Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko signed a law on the state budget for 2009. This is how transfers "Korrespondent.net, said on Monday deputy head of the Presidential Secretariat Oleksandr Shlapak. He did not specify details of the signed document, but noted that Ukraine will face a budget deficit in February 2009.
December 26, 2008 it became known that the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted a budget for 2009, the minimum required number of votes (226 of 450). The budget for 2009 sverstan deficit. At the same time limiting the deficit was set at 31 billion hryvnia (about four billion dollars).
Under the bill approved by the Rada, budget revenues in 2009 amount to 238 billion hryvnia (31.2 billion dollars). Expenditures were projected at 266 billion hryvnia (34.9 billion dollars). Spending was increased to 1.5 billion hryvnia.