Russian President Vladimir Putin has submitted to the State Duma a bill on the procedure for forming the Federation Council of the Russian Federation. The document is aimed at developing amendments to the Constitution of the Russian Federation. The bill proposes to allow the former presidents of Russia, who left this post early or due to the expiration of their term of office,

Chief justice is convinced the Constitutional Court needs a reboot.Photo from UNIAN, Viacheslav Ratynskyi Justice Minister Denys Maliuska has named three ways to resolve the “constitutional crisis” caused by the Constitutional Court’s ruling to repeal criminal liability for inaccurate asset declaration. “The exit has three stages,” Maliuska said, speaking at the Svoboda Slova [Freedom of Speech] panel show hosted by Savik Shuster

The ambassador says the Ukrainian people deserve visa-free travel.Ambassador Maasikas says the Ukrainian people deserve visa-free travel / Photo from UNIAN Ambassador of the European Union to Ukraine, Head of the EU Delegation to Ukraine Matti Maasikas says that it is necessary to fast restore trust in the country’s anti-corruption agencies after the country’s Constitutional Court repealed criminal liability for

    The IMF considers the launch of an electronic system for asset and income disclosure by Ukrainian high-level officials to be a critical element of bilateral cooperation and calls for enhancing the effectiveness of all Ukraine’s anti-corruption institutions. This is stated in the response of the IMF spokesperson to Ukrinform’s information inquiry regarding the Fund’s reaction to the decision of

In Chelyabinsk, on the territory of the city hospital No. 2, a warehouse for storing oxygen cylinders exploded. The explosion occurred due to a fire in the clinic, TASS reported, citing the regional Ministry of Health. According to 74.ru, the explosion occurred in a hospital for patients with coronavirus infection. 0:35Момент взрыва в студенческой поликлинике Челябинска с максимально близкого расстояния. По информации минздрава региона,

    Two people have been killed and three have been injured in a road accident on Kyiv’s Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square) when a Land Rover rammed into a crowd of people on October 30. The driver was notified of charges as he violated road safety rules, the Kyiv City Prosecutor’s Office said on Facebook.     “Upon agreement with the Kyiv

He says such actions are aimed at destroying Ukraine’s statehood.Photo from UNIAN Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) Oleksiy Danilov says he has no doubts that Russia is involved in decision-making by Ukraine’s Constitutional Court on repealing criminal liability for inaccurate e-declarations. Danilov said this on the air of Savik Shuster’s Freedom of Speech program on TV

The measures are to be confirmed on November 6.Photo from ua.depositphotos.com The European Union will impose sanctions against Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko and 14 other Belarusian officials next week. Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty reporter Rikard Jozwiak announced this on Twitter. “EU ambassadors will on wed give green light to impose asset freezes and visa bans on #Lukashenko & 14

These will be the ex-minister, deputies of city councils and district councils, judges, directors of state enterprises, officials – all those whom taxpayers have hired to work. 14:20 10/30/2020 From open sources The National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption has begun to publish a list of persons, both current and former officials, who will avoid responsibility for declaring false

Head of the President’s Office of Ukraine Andriy Yermak held a meeting with the G7 Ambassadors, the main subject of which was the recent events related to the decision of the judges of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine, which caused a great resonance in society. According to the presidential press service, Yermak spoke about an urgent meeting of the National

    The State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) has launched an investigation against the Constitutional Court’s Chief Justice Oleksandr Tupytskyi on suspicion of high treason and unauthorized occupation of a land plot. The press service of the State Bureau of Investigation announced this in a statement, the Ukrainian News Agency reports. “Investigators at the State Bureau of Investigation have launched a

Russian stock market at six-month low as analysts say ruble has been heavily “oversold.” Russian financial markets have suffered another painful week amid a surge in volatility and investor fears over the second wave of the coronavirus and next week’s U.S. presidential election. The ruble was down 0.5% against the U.S. dollar Friday, trading above 79 again for the first

CCU Chairman has commented on a case on which the Court is yet to issue a judgment.Photo from UNIAN Chairman of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine (CCU) Oleksandr Tupytsky says he does not rule out that the CCU may declare the High Anti-Corruption Court (HACC) unconstitutional. “The issue of the Anti-Corruption Court… I’ve heard nothing unconstitutional [at the CCU hearings

The official claimed he did not know how to properly report the plot in Koreiz.Photo from UNIAN, by Viacheslav Ratynsky Chairman of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine (CCU) Oleksandr Tupytsky says he sees nothing surprising in the fact that in 2018, he became the owner of a land plot in the village of Koreiz in Russian-occupied Crimea, drawing up a

The Ukrainian leader says that “certain individuals undermine the social contract in Ukraine.”Volodymyr Zelensky / Photo from UNIAN Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has announced it is inadmissible to let unrest break out over the notorious ruling by the country’s Constitutional Court on access to electronic declarations or use it to discredit Ukraine abroad. He announced this at a special meeting

Delayed payout of macro-financial assistance is more likely, he believes.Photo from UNIAN Brussels-based RFE/RL journalist Rikard Jozwiak says the suspension of the visa-free regime with the European Union for Ukrainian citizens over the ruling by the Constitutional Court of Ukraine (CCU) that affects the country’s anti-corruption reform is premature speculation. “Premature speculation that Ukraine might lose visa liberalization with the

Law enforcers in absentia bring to justice the head of the terrorist base at the seized Izolyatsia plant in Donetsk. This was reported on the website of the regional police. In 2014, gunmen took over the factory and turned it into a prison. Pro-Ukrainian residents were kept there, as well as servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and other units involved in the

In late December 2019, the construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline was suspended after the Swiss Allseas company refused to lay pipes due to possible sanctions from Washington© EPA-EFE/CLEMENS BILAN MOSCOW, October 29. /TASS/. President Vladimir Putin excoriated schemes to “put a spoke in the wheel” of Russia’s gas projects branding them a non-market way to restrict the