The bill is awaiting approval after the second reading. It provides for fundamental changes in a number of laws relating to the activities of the SBU (Secret Service of Ukraine), military intelligence, NABU (National Anti-Corruption Bureau...
On 25 October, at 22:15, a bomb went off near the car of Ihor Mosiychuk, Ukrainian MP from Radical Party. As a result, 3 people were wounded and 2 died. Mosiychuk’s bodyguard and a passer-by died in a hospital on 26 October due to the...
“Donbas laws” Re-integration law The first bill “On the specifics of the state policy to ensure the state sovereignty of Ukraine over temporarily occupied territories in the Donetsk and Luhansk...
Bohdan Hawrylyshyn, prominent Ukrainian-Canadian economist, professor, philanthropist and social activist, passed away quietly in his Kyiv apartment on October 24, 2016. Bohdan Dmytrovych Hawrylyshyn was born in the village of Koropets,...
Ukrainian activists from the Reanimation Package of Reforms are calling on the country’s Parliament to support a bill that would do away with a shameful Ukrainian 23-year old legacy of MPs voting for/instead of their colleagues. This...
Volodymyr Groysman, the newly elected prime minister of Ukraine, stated in a press conference on Friday, April 15, that he does not intend to radically change the leadership of the key economic ministries in the government in order to...
According to the results of today’s voting in the Verkhovna Rada, two coalitions have been formed: the coalition to preserve the (current) parliament and the coalition for early elections. The first coalition includes the Bloc of...
Political analyst Taras Stetskiv analyzes the threats represented by the Minsk agreements and discusses possible alternatives in an interview with Anton Borkovskyi on Espreso TV, February 8. Stetskiv is a former member of Ukraine’s...
Earlier this week the Russian Foreign Minister expressed his wish to discuss OUR Constitution in the “Normandy format.” The expected response from Ukraine should have been a statement on the order of “hands off the...
Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada (parliament) has adopted an appeal to the Ukrainian pilot and deputy Nadia Savchenko calling on her to end her hunger strike. Savchenko has been on a hunger strike in a Russian prison for 80 days. The...
On 11 October, a three-day meeting of the Synod, or church council, of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, finished in Istanbul. It gave further confirmation that Ukraine is on the path to receiving church independence from Moscow – and healing...
