Parliamentary speaker and senior Chinese official agree to step up cooperation PDF Print E-mail
Friday, 03 July 2009 13:41

Senior Chinese official Wang Gang and parliamentary speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn met in Kyiv on July 2, official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency) reported yesterday. The two sides agreed to step up exchanges and cooperation between the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), China's top political advisory body, and the Ukrainian Parliament.

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Speaker closes today's plenary sitting, Parliament to sit in plenary mode next week PDF Print E-mail
Friday, 03 July 2009 13:01

Ukrainian parliamentary speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn closed today's extraordinary plenary sitting at around midday local time. Just one issue was resolved today. Parliament voted overwhelmingly to strip MP Viktor Lozinskiy of his immunity from prosecution as an MP, after he had submitted a request yesterday to Parliament asking that his immunity be withdrawn.

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Parliament begins sitting, votes to remove immunity from YTB MP Lozinskiy PDF Print E-mail
Friday, 03 July 2009 10:13

The Ukrainian Parliament voted this morning to strip an MP of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc, Viktor Lozinskiy, of his immunity from prosecution as a member of parliament. A total of 415 MPs voted overwhelmingly in favour.

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Party of Regions blocking extraordinary parliamentary sitting PDF Print E-mail
Friday, 03 July 2009 09:32

Members of the Party of Regions are blocking the rostrum in the Ukrainian Parliament. Approximately 10 MPs are surrounding the rostrum and blocking access to it. The Ukrainian News agency reports that other MPs of the Party of Regions are also in Parliament.

 

Today's session was to have started at 10.00 local time. Personnel appointments to the Cabinet of Ministers are expected to be discussed.

 
YTB MP says Cabinet appointments to be on agenda of tomorrow's extraordinary session PDF Print E-mail
Thursday, 02 July 2009 16:25

Tomorrow's extraordinary session of the Ukrainian Parliament will consider three main issues, an MP of the pro-government Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc has said. YTB MP Andriy Kozhemyakin said today that the session will focus on personnel changes in the current Cabinet of Ministers, a draft law on annulling immunity from prosecution applied to members of parliament and, thirdly, annulling the immunity from prosecution of YTB MP Viktor Lozinskiy. He said that the YTB faction would be voting in favour of annulling immunity from prosecution enjoyed by all MPs.

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Premier demands lifting of MPs immunity over death of man in Kirovohrad region PDF Print E-mail
Thursday, 02 July 2009 14:12

Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has said that a member of her faction, MP Viktor Lozinskiy, should give up his parliamentary mandate, the 5 Kanal TV channel reported today. Speaking at a briefing broadcast live by 5 Kanal, she said: "I appealed to this MP and demanded that he tender a statement on giving up his mandate."

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Criminal proceedings launched against Ukrainian MP PDF Print E-mail
Wednesday, 01 July 2009 20:37

The Prosecutor-General's Office has launched criminal proceedings against an MP of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc, Viktor Lozinskiy. He is said to have been involved in a shooting case in Kirovohrad Region when a local resident was shot dead. Apart from Lozinskiy, the prosecutor of Holovanivsk District, Yevhen Horbenko, and the head of the district police department, Mykhaylo Kovalskiy, were involved in the incident.

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APPLICATIONS NOW BEING ACCEPTED for the Internship Program In the Committees and Departments of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine and in Offices of Executive Government of Ukraine
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New PDP Handbook “Law-Making: Comments to the Rules of Procedure of the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada” (Part I)
In November, 2008 a new PDP Handbook called “Law-Making: Comments to the Rules of Procedure of the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada” (Part I) (by S. V. Linetskyi, V. P. Kryzhanivskyi) was published.
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Laboratory of Legislative Initiatives prepares analytical review of laws adopted by Ukrainian Parliament in 2008
Experts at the Laboratory of Legislative Initiatives, a Kyiv-based NGO, have prepared an analytical review of laws adopted in 2008 by the Ukrainian Parliament of the current sixth convocation.

The Ukrainian language text of the review can be found here.

 
Latest PDP Handbook: Lawmaking series “Public Participation in the Legislative Process” now available
The most recent PDP Handbook, prepared by PDP Citizen Access Activity Manager Yuriy Shkarlat and colleagues from Laboratory for Legislative Initiatives has been printed and is ready for dissemination to the Verkhovna Rada and Ukrainian Civil Society Organizations.
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