With no direct state financing, no public fundraising campaigns and no right to conduct business activities, Ukrainian parties continue accumulating tens of millions UAH on their accounts, which are transferred to their campaign funds later. In general, over 90% of all official party campaign expenses were spent on promotion in media. At the same time, as long as election funds are filled non-transparently, campaign expenses are excessive and uncontrolled. Civil Network OPORA calls to strengt...

As long as the state doesn't finance political parties directly, their ordinary activities and competitive abilities during the election process fully depend on individual contributions made by wealthy donors. Such donations made by physical persons and legal entities are not controlled, and there are no efficient mechanisms securing financial accountability of political parties. As a result, these two factors facilitate political corruption and distort the democratic nature of election p...

This weekly program provides the audience information about activities and inaction of MPs, their salaries, offices, internal matters, soviet spirit of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine and international experience of parliamentarism. This program is goaled to explain complicated things in a comprehensible way and make people smile if there is a reason.

On 27 March 2015 at 10:00 AM, a public discussion titled "Electoral reform: transparent financing and meaningful campaigning" is to be held. This public discussion will help to find answers on how to overcome challenges of reforming and help politicians to take well-weighed decisions and secure a real election law reform. Registration deadline – 25 March.

TV program Dear Deputies is a joint project of the OPORA, Hromadske TV, and the First National TV Channel. This weekly program provides the audience information about activities and inaction of MPs, their salaries, offices, internal matters, soviet spirit of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine and international experience of parliamentarism. This program is goaled to explain complicated things in a comprehensible way and make people smile if there is a reason.

Although there are only 7 months left to local elections in Ukraine, the newly-elected Parliament made no substantial changes to secure their conduct on a high level of quality and in accordance with international democratic standards for the last 3 months of its activities. Therefore, a roundtable was held on 12 March in Kyiv, dedicated to local elections. The roundtable was initiated by the VRU Committee on Judicial Policy and Justice, a group of NGO consisting of Civil Network OPORA, Inter...

Taking into consideration that regular local elections are to be held in 7 months and the corresponding amendments to the Law are not drafted and adopted by MPs yet, a group of NGOs including the Civil Network OPORA, Internews-Ukraine, Ukrainian Center for Independent Political Research (UCIPR) with assistance of the International Foundation for Electoral Systems have developed a Concept of the amended Law of Ukraine in the Elections of Deputies to the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Depu...

  On 7 March 2015, there were 100 days since the MPs of Ukraine of VIII convocation have taken the authority. For these first 100 days, Ukrainian Parliament has managed to conduct 30 plenary meetings and pass 379 decisions. The current convocation of the Parliament started working in a more organized way and will less conflicts if compared to the previous convocation. For example, in contrast to the Parliament of VII convocation which had started its functioning with ten days of rostrum bloc...