Journalists' access to premises where committees hold their meetings is regulated in accordance to out-of-date norms, which make it quite complicated. Verkhovna Rada provides no standard procedure of getting access to public events, and meetings of committees. Resolution passed in 2006 requires consenting participation of journalists with a committee head or press-service, what is contradictory to regulations of the Resolution passed in 2011. The Committee on Budget, Committee on Nation...

The guard will not let journalists in till they find the necessary surname in an invitation list. The preliminary agreement, as well as accreditation card, doesn't secure a place for you in the "list of chosen". Everything depends on the goodwill of committee members. While some give permits without any problems, the others use regulations of the out-of-date document issued in 2006, which limits access to committees.

Civil Network OPORA is worried about consequences in realization of constitutional rights of citizens and the right on local self-government, which result from the Decision of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine. Appealing to the leadership of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, OPORA calls for urgent organization of parliamentary hearings on issues of local self-government in the capital of Ukraine – Kyiv city. Within this urgent discussion, all the interested parties, including representatives...

On Wednesday, May 29, we received information that unknown people call citizens of Berehovo (Zakarpattia oblast) and introduce themselves as representatives of Civil Network OPORA. These pseudo-activists assert that they are conducting sociological poll, connected to special elections of Mayor that are to be held this Sunday, on June 2

On June 3, a session of this year's External Independent Testing starts with more than 320 thousand entrants registered. All of them should come in time to test sites and follow testing instructions. Any mistake (coming late, using mobile phones or cribs etc.) may lead to losing a chance of becoming student. Therefore, in order to maximally prepare to the tests, and easily concentrate in the certain moment, Civil Network OPORA urges entrants to familiarize themselves with information ab...

On June 2, Civil Network OPORA will conduct civic observation and parallel vote tabulation during special elections of Vasylkiv (Kyiv oblast) andBerehovo (Zakarpattia oblast) City Mayors. Civic monitoring conducted by OPORA - is a type of network activity, aimed at impartial assessment of the elections, as well as preventing violations through comprehensive civic action. OPORA's observers will watch the election process in all the polling stations and territorial election commissions. I...

The Berehovo City Council's newspaper (Berehovo city in Zakarpattia oblast) provides a lot of its space to a candidate for the position of City Mayor, supported by the Party of Regions and Democratic Party of Hungarians of Ukraine – Zoltan Babiak.

The opposition has registered draft Resolution on Creation of a Temporary Inquiry Commission of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on Investigating Facts of Attack Against Mass Media Representatives on May 18, 2013 in Kyiv; and draft Resolution on Consideration of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine V.P. Pshonka reporting on observance of Ukrainian legislation and investigation of violations of citizen rights and freedoms, ruthless beating of mass media representatives and inaction of law enforcemen...