Ukrainian lustration bill to go to president for approval
The so-called lustration bill, under which about one million officials would be screened, is ready to go to President Petro Poroshenko for approval.
About 1 million Ukrainian officials face screening under lustration bill
About a million officials from different levels of government face screening and removal from their posts under the lustration bill which has been passed by the Parliament, according to Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk.
Ukrainian parliament rejects Yatsenyuk’s resignation
Ukraine’s parliament has rejected the resignation of Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, RIA Novosti announced.
Poroshenko signs partial mobilization bill
Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko has signed a bill on partial mobilization, his official website announced.
Ukraine opens case against Russian defense minister and oligarch
Ukraine’s Interior Ministry has initiated criminal proceedings against Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and the 39-year-old founder of equity investment group Marshall Capital, Konstantin Malofeyev.
Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada to hear Poroshenko’s partial mobilization decree
The Ukrainian parliament meeting tomorrow will give priority to President Petro Poroshenko’s decree on partial mobilization, Verkhovna Rada Speaker Oleksandr Turchynov announced.
Ukrainian Communist Party case to be heard on July 24
The Kiev Administrative District Court will hear a lawsuit to ban the Communist Party of Ukraine on July 24, Justice Minister Pavlo Petrenko announced.
Poroshenko approves punishment for separatism financing
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has signed a law adding punishment for separatism financing to the country’s Criminal Code, the UNIAN news agency announced, citing the president’s press service.
Ukraine goes to court seeking to outlaw Communist party
The Ministry of Justice of Ukraine has filed a claim with the Kiev District Court seeking to ban the Communist Party of Ukraine.
Ukrainian parliament members could face arrest for promoting rebel cause
Members of the Ukrainian parliament could lose their mandates and be arrested for sympathizing with eastern Ukraine rebels, Ukrainskaya Pravda reports citing Verkhovna Rada Speaker Alexander Tuchynov.
Ukraine puts judge who sent Tymoshenko to prison on wanted list
The Ukrainian Interior Ministry has put Pechersky District Court Judge Rodion Kireyev, who sentenced former Prime Minister Tymoshenko to seven years in prison for abuse of power for signing gas contracts with Russia in 2009, on the wanted list, the ministry announced on its website.
Ukraine approves law on partial ownership gas transit facilities by EU and US
The Ukrainian parliament has approved a law in the first reading that would allow the government to establish a gas distribution system operator that could be 49% owned by investors from the US or the EU.
Ukrainian lawmakers reject presidential amendments to constitution
Two parliamentary majority parties, Batkivshchyna and Svoboda (Freedom), have rejected the amendments to the constitution proposed by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, the parties’ representatives said on Tuesday.
Ukraine’s Naftogaz may sue Gazprom over gas transit contract
Kiev may file with the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce a lawsuit seeking revision of a gas transit contract with Russia’s Gazprom, Naftogaz of Ukraine CEO Andrei Kobolev told journalists on Monday.
Judge who sent Tymoshenko to prison put on wanted list
The Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office has put Pechersky District Court Judge Rodion Kireyev on the wanted list, Ukrainian news agency LigaBiznesInform announced on Friday. Kireyev was the judge who pronounced ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko guilty in the well-publicized “gas” case.
Ukrainian government confiscates titanium assets from Firtash
The Ukrainian government has terminated the lease contract of Crimea Titan, a company of billionaire Dmytro Firtash, for two titanium mining and enrichment plants, said Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, as quoted by RIA Novosti.
Ukraine opens tax evasion case against Yanukovich’s son
Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office is currently investigating a tax evasion case against Alexander Yanukovich, the eldest son of recently ousted president Viktor Yanukovich, deputy Prosecutor General Aleksei Baganets told journalists on Tuesday.
Chocolate mogul Poroshenko leads Ukrainian presidential elections – exit polls
Chocolate king and independent candidate Petro Poroshenko has won the presidential election in Ukraine in the first round with over 55% of the vote. According to exit polls, the runner-up is former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko (Batkivshchyna).
Ukrainian parliament votes for decentralization of power
The Verkhovna Rada will ensure the unconditional implementation of a constitutional reform focused on the decentralization of power, reads the parliament’s resolution adopted on Tuesday.
Ukrainian authorities seek access to ex-prosecutor Pshonka’s archives
Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s Office is in talks to obtain the archives of ex-Prosecutor General Viktor Pshonka with a “paramilitary group” that took part in the Maidan protests. The prosecutors believe that the archives contain information about the authorities’ struggles against the protestors, the office’s press service announced on Monday.