- During April 2013, MPs of Ukraine have drafted 405 bills and resolutions. MPs were mostly concerned with economic, financial issues, and administration (107 initiatives, or 26.42 % of all); law-enforcement system, justice, and fighting against corruption (86 initiatives, or 21.23 %); social issues and standards (60 initiatives, or 14.81 %). Similarly to previous months, security, defense, and ... →
- Civil Network OPORA continues to watch and analyze law-making activities of MPs of Ukraine of VII convocation. In this review for April, the organization has covered the scope of law-making activities in the Parliament, as well as activeness of MPs with consideration of involved factions and concerned issues. Besides that, OPORA has changed the approach to determining the "law-maker of the month" ... →
- According to the calendar plan of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, MPs are supposed to work in committees, commissions, and factions on May 7 and 8. This period is preparatory to plenary sittings, which are planned for May 14-17. However, the schedule of Parliamentary Committees of the Verkhovna Rada, where agenda of meetings is usually published, contains no information about activities of MPs in ... →
- The conflict between claimants to TVi Channel possession negatively threatens its editing policy. During three-day confrontation between the new channel management and the labor collective, first signs of pressure were noticed, presenter Pavlo Sheremet was unexpectedly discharged, and journalists' right to form a labor union was ignored. 43 journalists have called a strike until the conflict is ... →
- From 22 to 26 of April, MPs should be working in Committees of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. However, most of Committees don't conduct their meetings. According to the agenda of plenary meetings, which is published on the VRU site, plenary meetings are to start on May 4, 2013. Till that time, MPs should be working in Committees, Commissions, factions, and some days in districts. However, this ... →
- Verkhovna Rada has refused to promulgate information about officials of the Apparatus and indicate their salaries, referring to the fact that the document is for internal use only and is not subject to disclosure. ... →
- Off-site parliament meeting has already been included to the chronicle of Ukrainian parliamentarism. It was supposed to demonstrate the desire of pro-power majority to work in spite of "destructive" opposition policy to the citizens of Ukraine and to the world. In practice, everything has ended up with adoption of specific laws pertaining to redistribution of budget and solution of narrow ... →
- The superiority of the party in power may even rise soon. The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has registered draft Resolution on making amendments to the Resolution of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on Committees of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. The document was submitted by member of the Party of Regions Volodymyr Makeienko. He has proposed to change the composition of 21 Committees. ... →
- The Party of Regions has registered the largest number of draft laws for the second month in a row. In March 2013, members of the Party of Regions have registered 86 draft laws and resolutions concerning different issues. The AUU Batkivshchyna, which has registered 64 draft laws, is on the second place. March was the most productive month for the Svoboda and the UDAR. ... →
- Civil Network OPORA is concerned about an incident when a group of MPs of Ukraine attempted to conduct the plenary session of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine outside its premises on April 4, 2013. Such approach to the solution of parliamentary conflict is doubtful from legal and political point of view, what creates preconditions for final diminution of the Verkhovna Rada's importance in the ... →
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