Before the 3rd session of the Verkhovna Rada of VII convocation is opened, OPORA publishes a number of materials containing a summary of parliamentary activities for the current period. These documents complement a long-term monitoring, which is being conducted by the organization after 2012 Parliamentary elections. The second analysis will systematize the information about rejected legislative ... →
Before the 3rd session of the Verkhovna Rada of VII convocation is opened, OPORA will publish a number of materials containing a summary of parliamentary activities for the current period. These documents complement a long-term monitoring, which is being conducted by the organization after 2012 Parliamentary elections. Taking into consideration the results of an expert inquiry conducted by the ... →
According to OPORA's calculations, members of the AUU Svoboda faction turned out to be the most disciplined during two sessions of the Parliament. 33% of its members were present at all the sittings, as well as 27% of members of the Party of Regions, and 22% of the CPUOnly 12% members of the AUU Batkivshchyna and 5% of the UDAR didn't miss any sitting. As for non-faction MPs, only 3% of them ... →
According to the results of sociological researches of the companies Gemius and GfK, the month audience of Ukrainian internet in 2012 is around 15 million citizens. 33% of the population, what is 13 million Ukrainians, use internet every day. Internet became the main source if information, and had substituted even newspapers, radio, and television for almost 79% of users in the age of 20-49 ... →
In accordance with international standards and regulations of the Law on Access to Public Information, OPORA has created a rating of websites of VRU Committees based on the availability of socially important data on them. The organization has researched the presence of information published during previous convocations of the Committee, as well as about the effective one and its current ... →
Civil Network OPORA has analyzed activities of all Members of Parliament, elected in majoritarian districts, and particularly those in Volyn oblast. Monitoring was conducted during seven months starting from December 12, 2012 to July 12, 2013 during the first and the second session of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of VII convocation ... →
The Kyiv District Administrative Court obliged the Apparatus of the Verkhovna Rada to provide OPORA a copy of the manning table, which includes information about structural subdivisions of the VRU Apparatus, job titles, number of employees, and salaries for every position. ... →
In June 2012, Members of Parliament of Ukraine have registered 408 draft laws and resolutions, fourth part of which concern economy, finance, and administration. 23.5% – politics and state administration, 13% – law-enforcement and judicial systems. MPs were not very interested in foreign affairs, security, and defense, as well as in previous months, after all. Civil Network OPORA continues to ... →
The Committee on National Security and Defense has published all the hearings on its site after Civil Network OPORA instituted a court action against the VRU Apparatus after it refused to provide copies of meeting minutes. ... →
The next local elections will be accompanied by violations, if a new wording of the Law on the Elections of Deputies to the Verkhovna Rada of Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Deputies of Local Councils, Village, Town and City Heads is not adopted. Such conclusion was made by experts and MPs during the roundtable titled "Improvement of the Law on Local Elections. Problems and Directions", which was ... →
