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The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine approved a bill on the national budget of Ukraine for 2013 at a meeting on Wednesday.

“Today at a meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers, a bill on the national budget was approved. The budget is absolutely realistic, all financial indices are optimally balanced, and it is planned to increase the revenues of the budget via economic growth,” Ukrainian Finance Minister Yuriy Kolobov said at a briefing on Wednesday.