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  • Ukrainian parliament passes bill on higher minimum wage At its evening session on 6 December, the Ukrainian parliament passed bill No 5130 required for the 2017 state budget to be approved. It was supported by 227 MPs. Social Policy Minister…
  • Ukrainian cabinet denies MPs pay rise The Cabinet of Ministers has denied MPs a pay rise. "Last week, parliament voted on MPs' conclusions and recommendations regarding the 2017 budget. Now we in the government are processing…
  • Ukrainian parliament extends ban on farmland sale The Ukrainian parliament has extended the moratorium on the sale and purchase of farmland until 1 January 2018. Bill No 5123-1 was passed in principle and as a whole by 297 MPs. …
  • Ukrainian president initiates special parliament session by 30 Sep President Petro Poroshenko has called on parliament speaker Andriy Parubiy to convene an extraordinary session by 30 September. "I have called on the chairman of the Ukrainian parliament…
  • Ukrainian parliament favours establishment of Crimean Tatar Autonomous Republic The Ukrainian parliament has approved recommendations to the president, according to which the Constitution of Ukraine should be amended to mention the Crimean Tatar Autonomous Republic…
  • Take-off or landing?
    Sonya Koshkina
    Constitutional reform as far as the judiciary is concerned Effective from 30 September. Among other things, the reform kicks off the formation of the Supreme Court (during six months…
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  • President hopes Constitution to be amended in terms of decentralization "in the near future" President Petro Poroshenko during his 13 September visit to Dnipropetrovsk region stated hopes the Constitution in terms of decentralization will be amended "in the near future." …
  • Ukrainian plane maker allowed to branch out abroad The Ukrainian parliament has allowed state-owned aircraft building companies to set up plants abroad. Bill No 4809 was approved by 241 MPs. The explanatory note says the bill was…
  • Ukrainian parliament passes bill on internal biometric IDs The Ukrainian parliament has amended the law to introduce biometric passports for Ukrainian citizens. Bill No 3224 was put to vote several times before it was finally passed by 226…
  • High hopes
    Sonya Koshkina
    Ukraine has seen a lot of parties of "simply good people". And nothing solid has grown out of it. UDAR, the People's Front, Self-Reliance, Ukrop, to a lesser extent the Radical Party and Freedom, and others. All of them stood "for everything…
  • Ukrainian parliament dismisses two Constitutional Court judges The Ukrainian parliament on 5 July dismissed two judges of the Constitutional Court. Oleksandr Pasenyuk tendered his resignation after he turned 65, the the age limit for a judge…
  • Donbas on hold
    Sonya Koshkina
    Ukraine has already taken the path of constitutional changes aimed at ensuring that Donbas has if not a "special", then clearly different status compared with other regions. The only question is when and in what format it is going to complete…
  • President postpones UK visit over prosecutor's stalemate Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has said that he has postponed his UK visit scheduled for 11-12 May after parliament failed to agree on a new prosecutor-general and to pass the…
  • Three new MPs join president's faction MPs Valeriy Karpuntsov, Oleh Velykin and Maksym Savrasov have entered the propresidential Petro Poroshenko Bloc faction in parliament, speaker Andriy Parubiy announced on 10 May. …
  • On 10 May, parliament failed to pass bill No 4669 which would open the way to Yuriy Lutsenko to become prosecutor-general. It was supported by 224 MPs, just two votes short of the…