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      Parliament changes administrative system of Luhansk region
      Oct07

      Parliament changes administrative system of Luhansk region

      The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has adopted two draft resolutions on amendments to the administrative and territorial system of Luhansk region, which were filed by Ukrainian MP Hennadiy Moskal. A Ukrinform correspondent said that MPs had voted for a draft resolution on changes to the administrative and territorial system of Luhansk region, changes...

      More than 400 units of armored vehicles repaired over month
      Oct07

      More than 400 units of armored vehicles repaired over month

      Over the time of the truce, Ukrainian repair teams repaired more than 400 units of armored vehicles. Official representative of the NSDC Information-Analytical Center Andriy Lysenko told a briefing about this,” a Ukrinform correspondent reports. Over a period from September 6 and till October 6, 2014, Ukroboronprom mobile teams repaired 433 units...

      Poroshenko dismisses top State Border Service officials
      Oct07

      Poroshenko dismisses top State Border Service officials

      Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has dismissed Army General Mykola Lytvyn as head of the State Border Service of Ukraine. A decree to that effect has been posted on the website of the head of state The president also dismissed First Deputy Head of the State Border Service, Director of the Department of State Border Protection, Colonel General...

      MPs support ‘inevitability of punishment’ for terrorism
      Oct07

      MPs support ‘inevitability of punishment’ for terrorism

      Ukrainian MPs have passed a law that envisages the inevitability of punishment for corruption and terrorist financing. A total of 253 MPs voted for law No. 4448a at the third attempt. The draft law was prepared to ensure the principle of inevitability of punishment in cases when the suspect (defendant), being outside Ukraine, is hiding from the...

      Situation in Ukraine’s eastern regions. Map
      Oct07

      Situation in Ukraine’s eastern regions. Map

      The situation in eastern Ukraine remains tense. Despite the declared ceasefire, terrorists continue to shell Ukrainian army positions.

      Parliament votes for creation of anti-corruption bureau
      Oct07

      Parliament votes for creation of anti-corruption bureau

      Ukrainian lawmakers have adopted at first reading a draft law on the system of specially authorized entities in combating corruption. A total of 278 MPs voted for this decision on Tuesday, Ukrinform’s correspondent reported. Verkhovna Rada Chairman Oleksandr Turchynov said that presidential bill No. 5085 would be the first issue considered...

      Turchynov will name everyone who fails to vote for anticorruption laws
      Oct07

      Turchynov will name everyone who fails to vote for anticorruption laws

      Verkhovna Rada Chairman Oleksandr Turchynov agreed for a proposal of head of the Svoboda party Oleh Tiahnybok to make public a list of people’s deputies, who fails to vote for the package of anticorruption laws. He said this at the VR extraordinary meeting Tuesday, a Ukrinform correspondent reports. “I support a proposal by Oleh Tiahnybok,...

      Svoboda demands to publish in mass media who and how voted for anticorruption laws
      Oct07

      Svoboda demands to publish in mass media who and how voted for anticorruption laws

      Head of the parliamentary faction Svoboda Oleh Tiahnybok demands to publish in mass media today’s roll-call vote of people’s deputies for anticorruption laws. He said this from the Verkhovna Rada rostrum, a Ukrinform correspondent reports. “If during consideration of the very important issue concerning the anticorruption laws the MP...

      Poroshenko, Nuland discuss financial assistance and military cooperation
      Oct07

      Poroshenko, Nuland discuss financial assistance and military cooperation

      Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland have discussed in Kyiv the possibility of increasing U.S. macro-financial assistance to Ukraine, the presidential press service has reported. “The sides discussed the possibility of increasing macro-financial assistance to Ukraine from the United...

      Turchynov opens extraordinary session of parliament
      Oct07

      Turchynov opens extraordinary session of parliament

      Verkhovna Rada Chairman Oleksandr Turchynov opened an extraordinary session of the parliament, which is planned to consider the anti-corruption law package. A Ukrinform correspondent reports. “I used the right to convene an unscheduled parliament session, aimed at consideration and adoption of a package of laws that will ensure the fight...