Losing control of the ball

A year before the European football championships one thing is certain in Ukraine: preparations for the tournament will cost more than the original estimates. What is unclear is just by how much Mladen Petrov Aday does not pass without the Ukrainian media writing about the Euro 2012 football championships. But instead of being printed in the sports sections, news about the tournament is more and more often appearing on newspapers' investigative pages. Delayed constructions, mysterious companies, opaque contracts, orders carried out for inflated prices - journalists have never had it so good. With time running out, the government decided to allow the Ukrainian Euro 2012 agency ("?????????????????) to dispense with tenders for the biggest infrastructure projects. As a result, the choice of contractors and subcontractors, as well as many of the purchases connected with the organisation of Euro 2012, seem to have slipped out of control. The need for lightAt the beginning of this year a