27 September, 2021 | Breaking news | As reported, the Verkhovna Rada appointed an early election of the mayor of Kharkiv for October 31, 2021 |
27 January, 2021 | Breaking news | The Verkhovna Rada has supported bill No. 3612 "On the All-Ukrainian Referendum" at the second reading |
17 September, 2020 | Breaking news | The head of the Ukrainian delegation to the Trilateral Contact Group Leonid Kravchuk says |
4 September, 2020 | Breaking news | Totally, 268 Members of Parliament voted for the adoption of bill No. 3659-d as a whole, with the minimum required 226 |
11 February, 2020 | Politics | The new administration failed, after all, to make good on a single serious reform. The seemingly minor postponement could suggest a systemic crisis of decision-making |
31 January, 2020 | Politics | 2020 local elections will be more of a challenge for the Servant of the People party than the parliamentary campaign
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27 January, 2020 | Politics | The red lines that keep haunting Volodymyr Zelenskiy have managed to find their way into the bill on decentralization, too |
17 November, 2019 | Politics | Why did Volodymyr Zelenskiy need to lift immunity for MPs and how does this threaten Ukraine’s democracy? |
11 November, 2019 | Politics | How to prevent surrender |
22 October, 2019 | Politics | The Ukrainian Week talks with one-time speaker of the Verkhovna Rada, acting president, and secretary of Ukraine’s National Security Council, about shifts in the nature of the war and informational security, and the rise of conservative trends in modern politics |
30 August, 2019 | Politics | A portrait of voters by party in Verkhovna Rada elections over the last 20 years |
28 August, 2019 | Politics | How the new parliament will be different from the previous one, and why the latest change is not a revolution |
24 August, 2019 | Politics | The only barrier to a long usurpation of power by the one-party propresident majority will be fragmentation of his faction in parliament amidst the lack of serious competition and temptations of power |
17 July, 2019 | Politics | The Ukrainian Week discussed with the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada the likely scenarios of revenge and means of its prevention, as well as the results of the government’s activity over the past five years |
9 June, 2019 | Breaking news | Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has signed a decree pardoning 72-year-old, Russia-born Vyacheslav Vysotsky |
27 May, 2019 | Breaking news | The Ukrainian Supreme Court has refused to open proceedings in a case against decree 'On the early termination of powers of the Verkhovna Rada and calling extraordinary elections.' |
21 May, 2019 | Breaking news | According to Poltorak, it is very dangerous for the country to leave its armed forces without coordinating the command control
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13 May, 2019 | Politics | How current and the next state leaders use the timeout |
20 March, 2019 | Breaking news | The plenary session on Wednesday was over after consideration of amendment No. 821 |
11 February, 2019 | Politics | What will be the impact of Ukrainian elections on the parliament? |
30 November, 2018 | Politics | A look at how voter attitudes have shifted over the years and how the Verkhovna Rada has been shaped since independence |
10 September, 2018 | Politics | What to expect in the new parliamentary season |
15 September, 2017 | Politics | The annual speech of the President outlines accomplishments and failures. Over the course of modern Ukrainian history, the addresses have painted the image of the country’s every leader and his era in politics |
11 September, 2017 | Politics | President Poroshenko's state of the nation address to the Rada |
23 February, 2017 | Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada on the main contradictions and temptations of Ukrainian politics, the major ideological camps in the legislature, the war, lobbying, and geopolitics | |
26 January, 2017 | World | In 2017, Ukraine will be a major test of conscience that will force democratic countries to an uneasy choice among values |
12 December, 2016 | Verkhovna Rada Vice-Speaker on re-balancing power in Ukraine, the effect of the Minsk process, and occupied territories | |
19 October, 2016 | Politics | Who is vying for leadership in the Poroshenko Bloc and Yatseniuk's People’s Front |
19 October, 2016 | Politics | How generations shift in the electoral field of the former Party of Regions clans |
19 October, 2016 | Politics | What the self-proclaimed democratic opposition to the current government wants and can achieve |
19 September, 2016 | Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada about the change of generations in politics, work on past mistakes and the current agenda for political elites and society | |
16 September, 2016 | Politics | The new regular session of the Verkhovna Rada started on September 6. It looks like actors on Ukraine’s political scene, probably with the exception of Petro Poroshenko's Bloc and Arseniy Yatseniuk’s People's Front, have great expectations and ambitious plans for this fall seasons. Major oligarchs are likely to step up their game. The situation in the presidential team is not at its best either |
25 May, 2016 | Politics | Is the President Administration ready for a snap election |
8 March, 2016 | Politics | The presidential party's approach to forming party lists and selecting candidates for single-member constituencies has divided it into a multitude of groups and even more basically independent MPs |
16 December, 2015 | Politics | The Cabinet is bound to be shuffled. The bargaining is already underway. The new one is unlikely to be a government of technocrats |
20 August, 2015 | Head of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Foreign Affairs on Ukraine’s cooperation with Western partners and international organizations, the consequences of the Minsk agreement and the upcoming local elections | |
23 February, 2015 | Politics | Hopes for stamping out corruption, reforming law enforcement bodies and transforming the country in accordance with the European values are futile, unless major flaws in the Ukrainian electoral law are eradicated |
12 November, 2014 | Unhappy, poorly dressed people, mostly elderly, trudged to the polls to cast their votes for one of the richest people in the Donetsk region | |
23 October, 2014 | Politics | The parliamentary election may bring only few “new faces” to parliament |
23 October, 2014 | Politics | The electoral fiasco of the Communist Party in Ukraine does not mean less demand for social populism. It only brings to the political arena new players that are better fits for the new structure of Ukrainian society |
15 September, 2014 | Politics | With the old election law in place, the parliamentary campaign cannot radically upgrade the Verkhovna Rada now. Still, it will make it more adequate to the challenges faced by the state |
12 August, 2014 | Politics | The Parliament inherited from Yanukovych holds an imminent threat to Ukraine, yet the breakup of pro-European coalition is potentially as dangerous |
4 April, 2013 | News | Party of Regions’ and Communist Party MPs, as well as independent MPs, the total of 244, have voted to hold the parliamentary session at an alternative location, 6/8 Bankova Street, rather than the current parliament building at Hrushevskoho Street. |
15 March, 2013 | Politics | Is the Vlasenko case a mechanism of pressure against disloyal MPs or an element of geopolitical provocation? |
22 February, 2013 | Politics | The Party of Regions` attempts to intimidate the opposition with early elections or responsibility for the breakdown of European integration have not given the desired result so far, so an escalation of resistance can be expected in the near future |
22 October, 2012 | When yet another acquaintance of mine asked me, for the fourth time this week, why I am not running for a seat in parliament, I had to stop and think. Is the career of a politician so attractive in the view of so many people that it is worth abandoning your profession (which you may happen to love), competence, previously acquired practical experience, an established mode of life and, finally, your circle of friends? (The milieu of which inevitably changes in the upper stratosphere.) | |
26 September, 2012 | Politics | The last session of the present parliament could prove most unpredictable |
14 September, 2012 | Politics | The party in power is afraid of losing control of parliament when most MPs are focusing their efforts on conducting pre-election campaigns. |
21 July, 2012 | Politics | The position of the Verkhovna Rada’s Speaker on the language law, regardless of his motivation, will determine his political future and his place in Ukrainian history |