It has again taken Ukraine many months to break down the domestic opposition of vested interests in order to qualify for much-needed international assistance. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy recently signed into law two key bills: one aimed...
On 13 May 2020, the Ukrainian Parliament made a historical decision by supporting in the second reading the new banking law, dubbed in the media as the “Anti-Kolomoiskyi Bill,” referring to the oligarch Ihor Kolomoiskyi. Passing the...
The effect of the land reform regulations for the Ukrainian market After the land market law was adopted in the first reading, more than 4,000 amendments were submitted by MPs to this six-page law. The Ukrainian parliament had to vote on...
Kolomoyskyi and Privatbank: how the government is heading toward solution that will finally put an end to this story and open the possibility of an agreement with the IMF On 22 November, during the last day of the IMF mission to Ukraine,...
Arson of the house: why Hontareva and why now? The fact that somebody has declared war on Valeriya Hontareva is in no doubt. The arson of her house, located in the village of Horenychi just outside of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, is the...
Before the final voting, Yaroslav Yurchyshyn, Chief Executive of Transparency International Ukraine said that the bill which was considered today is much better than one which was considered at the beginning. In general, all the...
The International Monetary Fund has officially informed the Ukrainian authorities that the adoption of the presidential draft Law on the Anti-Corruption Court in its current version will mean Kyiv’s violation of its obligations to...
About a month ago thousands of people in Belarus took to the streets all over the country in peaceful non-violent protests against a tax on the unemployed. The “law against social parasites” requires people who work less than 183 days...
Ukraine’s 2017 budget was adopted on 21 December 2016 by parliament. Despite a late and typically emotional adoption of the budget, the whole process came to a good end: the government managed to deliver a budget, which meets the...
It’s called a crisis, civil conflict, unrest, an anti terrorist operation (ATO), rebellion, separatism, and any other adjective. Mysteriously though, never the 3 letter word, “War”. If there even is a fleeting echo of “war”,...
A scandalous exhibition On 26 May, the State Bureau of Investigations (DBR, Derzhavne Buro Rozsliduvan) accused former Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko of illegally smuggling a collection of 43 paintings and not paying customs and...
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