President Petro Poroshenko has enacted the decision of the National Security and Defence Council to introduce martial law and sent a draft law to this effect to parliament.
The National…
At six in the morning on 23 November, the Ukrainian parliament passed the bill on the 2019 state budget. It was supported by 240 MPs.
The budget has never been approved so early in…
Parliament passed bill No8488 on the introduction of amendments to the Customs Code, which in particular regulates the import of vehicles to Ukraine.
It boosts fines for the illegal…
Parliament has passed the bill “On providing for the functioning of the Ukrainian language as the state one” as a whole.
It subjects public officials to language certification tests…
Parliament has extended the law “On special regulations on local self-government in certain areas of Donetsk and Luhansk regions” until 31 December 2019.
The factions of Self-Reliance…
The following are the key excerpts from his speech:
EU and NATO
- "Today, the Supreme Council of Ukraine will vote on the amendments to the Basic Law on the irreversibility of the…
Parliament has increased the number of Central Electoral Commission members from 15 to 17 to unblock the appointment of new members.
Opposition Bloc, Self-Reliance and Fatherland…
The Ukrainian parliament has taken a decision to nominate film director Oleh Sentsov, whom Russia jailed on trumped-up
terrorism charges four years ago, for the Nobel Peace Prize…
Prosecutor-General Yuriy Lutsenko has asked parliament to lift immunity from prosecution from Opposition Bloc MPs Oleksandr Vilkul, Serhiy Dunayev and Dmytro Kolesnikov. He
published…
President Petro Poroshenko is likely to deliver his annual state-of-the-nation address in parliament on 18 September.“At a meeting with our faction, Petro Poroshenko raised the issue…
President Petro Poroshenko has vetoed bill No 5495, which would limit the annual rough timber logging to 25m cu.m. during the moratorium on rough wood exports and introduce criminal…
Speaker Andriy Parubiy has closed the eighth session until 4 September, according to an LB.ua correspondent.
"Today parliament has shown unity and ability to pass decisions in a consolidated…
Parliament is planning to lower excise duties on imported cars. Thus, it has passed bills No 8487 and No 8488 as a whole.
The planned basic excise duties are going to be 50 euros…
The Ukrainian parliament has decided that all due cases will be handed over to the High Anticorruption Court after it takes to work.
Bill No 7441 was supported by 254 MPs.
Thus,…
Ukrainian parliament speaker Andriy Parubiy has promised journalists that they will not be barred from the sidelines, according to an LB.ua correspondent.“There will be no restricted…