On 20 June, the Ukrainian parliament passed the law ratifying the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence, better known…
On 19 June, Ukraine's parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, passed the resolution stating its appeal to the UN Committee on Human Rights, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, the…
The Czech Republic is preparing to recognize the Holodomor in Ukraine in 1932-33 as an act of genocide against the Ukrainian people. This was announced by the Ambassador of Ukraine…
Bill on oligarchs
Parliament has given the second reading to the bill on prevention of threats to national security connected with excessive influence of individuals with significant…
Bill on indigenous people
Parliament has passed the bill on indigenous people (5506). According to the bill sponsored by the president, Crimean Tatars, Crimean Karaites and Krymchaks…
Ukraine changed clocks to summer time in the early hours of 28 March.
Coronavirus
Ukraine may sign agreements on the supply of a US-made coronavirus vaccine in the coming days, Health…
Donbas
Two Ukrainian servicemen got shrapnel wounds after Russia-backed militants dropped two VOG-17 shots from a drone near Vodyane. There have been five ceasefire violations, the…
Bill on referendum
Parliament has passed the president's bill on referendum which introduces a procedure for people's rule and describes the issues which may be addressed at a referendum…
Essential bills
MPs have passed the so-called anti-Kolomoyskyy bill (on certain aspects of the banking system functioning), which prevents former owners of bankrupt banks from cancelling…
At its extraordinary meeting on 13 April, Ukrainian MPs unblocked the signing of bill No 2178-10 "On amendments to certain legislative acts of Ukraine regarding farmland turnover"…
Parliament has passed amendments to the 2020 state budget of Ukraine to adjust for spending required for measures against the COVID-19 coronavirus and suggesting a threefold
increase…
Parliament may hold an extraordinary plenary session this Thursday or Friday, speaker Dmytro Razumkov has said on the air of Ukrayina 24 TV.
Earlier, Servant of the People faction…
In the early minutes of 31 March, the Ukrainian parliament cancelled the moratorium on the sale of farmland as of July 2021.
Bill No 2178-10 was supported by 259 MPs, thus surpassing…
At its extraordinary meeting on 30 March, the Ukrainian parliament gave the first reading to the bill on certain aspects of the functioning of the banking system. This is a key bill…
Servant of the People MP Ruslan Gorbenko has tested positive for the Covid-19 coronavirus.
He said that he had to take three tests for a conclusive result.
He noted that he had not…