Russian military aggression has significantly influenced the election administration in Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts and deprived more than 4 million Ukrainian citizens of their right to freely choose the President, and more than 3 million citizens of their right to choose MPs of Ukraine in 2014. Experts emphasize that it's urgent to improve the effective laws on local elections and MCA, and establish a special mechanism allowing to ascertain at any stage of the election process that it&...

According to the State Register of Voters[1] Donetsk oblast is the largest one by the number of voters in Ukraine (3 million 327 thousand 70 voters). Lugansk oblast by the number of voters takes the 7th place among 27 regions of Ukraine (1 million 784 thousand 936 voters), giving up only to Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk oblasts, Kyiv city, Kharkiv, Lviv and Odesa oblasts.

Special reporting – a bicycle or a car: what's better to commute to the Parliament? We'll conduct a test-drive and try to park correctly. Let's see the other world – we'll tell about MPs riding bicycles in Britain, Netherlands and Uganda.

On 29 April 2015 a public discussion will be held in Kyiv. MPs of Ukraine, government officials, representatives of authorities in Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts, leading election law experts, representatives of political parties and non-governmental organizations will discuss the probability of holding local elections on Donbas territories close to the front line zone, renewal of information space in Ukraine and new approaches. The event is organized by a group of non-governmental organizations...

Ukrainian Center for Independent Political Research, Election Law Institute, Internews-Ukraine, OPORA, Regional Press Development Institute in the partnership with the Reanimation Package of Reforms supported by the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) invite interested parties to participate in a public discussion titled "Key electoral procedures: reforming directions" on 21 April.

In spite of post-electoral forecasts, such a "wide" coalition between five factions has demonstrated it can coordinate interests and prevent acute political conflicts.

In this series: tickets without queues - why do special booking offices for MPs still exist? Which regions do the most active and the most passive MPs represent? Electoral system used for parliamentary elections in Georgia, and preferences that Georgian MPs. Do MPs know the ethical rules for MPs established by the Law?

 The twelfth series of the program that was broadcasted on 6 April covered: attendance at meetings of committees, MPs that haven't chosen a committee yet, and ten MPs "shriekers" which haven't attended any meeting of committees. Which peculiarities Georgian Parliament has? what do the parties which failed to overcome the electoral threshold do? The rubric "Soviet" tells us about the meaning of social realistic decorations on the facade of the Verkhovna Rada.