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  • The Ukrainian parliament has adopted the law on the basic principles and requirements for organic production, circulation and labeling of organic products. A total of 237 MPs voted…
  • MPs refuse to consider new election body members The Ukrainian parliament has refused to consider reformatting the Central Electoral Commission, according to an LB.ua correspondent. Speaker Andriy Parubiy put it for the rating vote…
  • MP Ponomaryov reportedly hospitalized with heart attack MP Oleksandr Ponomaryov of the People's Will group had a heart attack on 29 June, the Zaporizhzhya news website IPnews has quoted its sources as saying. According to its information…
  • Parliament sets up Anticorruption Court On 21 June, parliament passed bill No 8497 "On the formation of the High Anticorruption Court" by 265 votes. The draft law sets up a new court based in Kyiv and describes the procedure…
  • Parliament passes bill on national security Parliament has passed the draft law on the national security of Ukraine with 248 votes. It regulates the principles of state policy on national security and defense with a view to…
  • Ukrainian finance minister dismissed The Ukrainian parliament has upheld Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman's request and dismissed Finance Minister Oleksandr Danylyuk with 254 votes. Before his dismissal, Danylyuk severely…
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  • Parliament passes law on anticorruption court The Ukrainian parliament has passed the bill "On the Higher Anticorruption Court" with 315 votes. On the eve, the Ukrainian authorities and the West finally agreed an amendment on…
  • Parliament defers anticorruption court bill until June MPs have discussed 1,273 out of 1,927 amendments to the law on the Supreme Anticorruption Court, whose establishment is one of the key conditions of the West for allocating further…
  • Ukrainian parliament permits posthumous organ donation The Ukrainian parliament has adopted a law permitting organ transplantation after the death of the donor provided he or she has given a written consent to organ transplantation. A…
  • Prosecution wants MP Dunayev's immunity from prosecution lifted Ukrainian Prosecutor-General Yuriy Lutsenko has requested parliament's consent to prosecute Opposition Bloc MP Serhiy Dunayev whose status makes him immune from prosecution. Lutsenko's…
  • Lutsenko to petition for stripping three MPs of immunity Prosecutor-General Yuriy Lutsenko has said he is planning to sign petitions to strip three MPs of immunity from prosecution on 14-20 May, according to 5 Kanal. He did not give any…
  • Parliament takes spring recess Parliament has taken a three-week "May recess" after deputy parliament speaker Iryna Herashchenko closed today's morning session, an LB.ua correspondent has reported. There were up…
  • Top prosecutor says more MPs facing cases Prosecutor-General Yuriy Lutsenko has said he has enough materials to ask parliament to lift immunity from prosecution with regard to five MPs, but "the legal department of the Prosecutor-General's…
  • Parliament supports appeal for church autocephaly On 19 April, parliament passed with 268 votes draft resolution No 8284 in support of the Ukrainian president's appeal to Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople to grant autocephaly…
  • Parliament defence committee approves national security bill The parliamentary committee for national security and defence has advised parliament to pass the presidential bill "On national security" as the basis and rework it before the second…