On July 5, the Civic Network OPORA made a presentation of its third monthly long-term observation report. The report focuses on incidents of administrative resource abuse, including officials conducting campaigns or engaging in pre-election campaign activities. OPORA presented recent data on election campaigning and new forms of voter bribery used before the official launch of the campaign. 

Primaries - is a truly great instrument which enables different but ideologically close political forces to unite, accumulate resources and win. However, even the finest theories may be impossible to apply, and they may not always give expected results.

At the evening session of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on 3 June 2012, MPs of Ukraine voted for the bill #9073 "On the principles of the state language policy". Such information was spread by the press-service of Ukrainian Parliament. Civil Network OPORA studied the procedure itself and examined all related information and documents. Having analyzed the record of live broadcasting of the session, a verbatim record of the evening sitting and results of voting in the VRU (Verkhovna Rada of Ukr...

On Thursday, July 5, at 11.30 in UNIAN news agency (located at Khreshchatyk St. 4), Civic Network OPORA will held a press conference "Administrative resource – a threat to fair elections."

Thanks to OPORA, the Deputy Head of Rivne Oblast State Administration (OSA) Anatolii Yukhymenko revealed a political provocation against him in the internet. The potential candidate for MP of Ukraine informed about this in his blog.

Elections in Donetsk oblast have always aroused great interest among national and international observers. Previous election campaigns in this region were known for an indisputable leader with administrative, informational, personnel and financial advantages. The situation hasn’t changed before the 2012 Parliamentary campaign. However, it’s still intriguing.

Within observation of 2012 Parliamentary elections, Civic Network OPORA investigates the activity of potential candidates to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine in Rivne oblast. Today, politicians use not only outdoor and mass media advertising. They also started actively using internet, which is undoubtedly the best place for engaging voters.

You should agree that words "charity" and "patronage" became an indicator of ambitious intentions of certain politicians or parties. The increase in activity of Chernihiv Mayor Oleksandr Sokolov before elections was anticipated by local experts and regional mass media for a long time. Therefore, the public "named" creation of Charitable Foundation "The Future of Chernihiv" as the launch of campaign for parliamentary elections in district #205 by the Mayor of Chernihiv.