When MPs are talking about budget costs, their words may differ from their thoughts. It can be proved by various slips of the tongue made by deputies and voting results on the particular issues of the last meeting of the Budget Committee.

Leaders of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine are planning to shift confrontations between MPs, which arise during consideration of draft laws, from the assembly hall to committees. In response, Members of Parliament show unwillingness to adhere to legislative regulations in their activities.

According to the results of sociological researches of the companies Gemius and GfK, the month audience of Ukrainian internet in 2012 is around 15 million citizens. 33% of the population, what is 13 million Ukrainians, use internet every day.  Internet became the main source if information, and had substituted even newspapers, radio, and television for almost 79% of users in the age of 20-49 years.  Its fast development makes it convenient and cheap place for information exchange. It's pa...

A force majeure happened in Vasylkiv, on 4 June, a half of an hour before the end of voting on the second large PEC. An observer from the opposition candidate has caught red-handed a member of the commission, who was trying to bring passports of five young men into the polling station. Shouts, police, Berkut special units.... It will be later revealed - that member of the PEC, a son of the Commission Head, was intended to secretly register his friends as observers, so that they could help to ...

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 While some give permits without any problems, the others use regulations of the out-of-date document issued in 2006, which limits access to committees.

Specially for the Ukrainska Pravda In 2012, the State Administrative Office of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has lost almost 1.5 million UAH on equipment for Parliamentary activities. Lion's share of the total amount, particularly 875 thousand UAH, was spent on Grafit - VR12 speech recognition system. This system was to be used for making verbatim records of MP's statements.

On April 21, midterm elections to Rivne Oblast Council were held in single-member districts. Elections were called because 4 deputies became MPs, and one had passed away. According to the voting results, the opposition has lost this battle. However, the Party of Regions and its partners have already had a stable majority for decision-making in the current political situation.

Clemency granted for the ex-Minister of Internal Affair of Ukraine Yurii Lutsenko is a significant step towards signing the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement. While the President is solving the issues of selective justice, MPs are trying to establish cooperation with leaders of European countries. A considerable part of tasks were tasks assigned to the Committee on European Integration, but its sittings are being hampered by some members. Due to the absence of quorum, 2 of 3 meetings in March ...

OPORA observers have interviewed the deputy head of Rivne oblast administration, the deputy of oblast council, and a candidate to the Verkhovna Rada from the Party of Regions in district #153, Anatolii Yukhymenko.