The Committee for the Organization of State Power, Local Self-Government, Regional Development, and Urban Planning established a Working Group to develop comprehensive changes to the electoral law in order to unify the mechanism for legal regulation of election process in Ukraine.

On March, 28, 2021, the interim elections of people’s deputies will be taking place, because the people’s deputy Zynoviy Andriyovych became a mayor of Nadvirna, and Ruslan Trebushkin became the mayor of Pokrovsk. On February, 5, 2021, the Central Election Commission finalized the composition of district election commissions for the organization and conduct of interim elections in a one-member constituency No 50 and No 87. The commissions were set up in the maximum membership – 18 persons in e...

Civil Network OPORA analyzed how many deputies of Oblast and city councils managed to be re-elected in 2020.

January, 26, Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine passed, in the second reading and in whole, the draft law “On Popular Rule Through the All-Ukrainian Referendum” (No 3612). The new law is aimed at implementing direct popular rule and address national issues. The law has already “grown” rumours and is surrounded by disinformation. That is why this article explains how the all-Ukrainian referendum is going to run in Ukraine.

OPORA analyzed the political ads in the Ukrainian segment of Facebook in January* 2021 and concluded that in this month the content was promoted by 1,054 pages that invested into 7,938 posts from USD 151,076 to 231,563**.

Social media are becoming key platforms for communication between politicians and society. However, in addition to the option to complain about the bad roads directly to the people’s deputy on the Facebook messenger, social media also have a huge capacity to indirectly influence public opinion. Read below about the two most common tools to produce the impact – the networks of pages and bots .

Сivil network OPORA joins the statement of non-governmental election observation organizations regarding the military coup in Myanmar (formerly Burma). Below is the full text of the statement.

During the 2020 local elections, territorial authorities of the National Police registered the total of 17,979 reports and complaints related to election process. The total of 1,297 criminal proceedings have been initiated, 728 proceedings have been closed, 116 cases were referred to court. Pre-trial investigation is underway for 416 criminal proceedings.