2016/02/02 Ucraina: I principali eventi e temi del giorno - La Verkhovna Rada ha adottato in prima lettura gli emendamenti alla Costituzione in termini di giustizia

La Verkhovna Rada ha adottato in prima lettura gli emendamenti alla Costituzione in termini di giustizia

I principali eventi e le questioni del giorno 02.02.2016 da Digest e Analitica Ucraina

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• La Verkhovna Rada ha adottato in prima lettura gli emendamenti alla Costituzione in termini di giustizia.
• Anniversario della morte del cantante e figura pubblica di Kuzma Skriabin.
• Giudice odiosa Vovk lavora di nuovo alla corte di Pechersk.
• Il procuratore militare Matios ha chiamato Corpo dei Volontari ucraini del Settore destra di gruppo armato illegale.

02/02/2016 Ukraine: Daily Highlights - The Verkhovna Rada adopted in the first reading the amendments to the Constitution related to justice reform

The Parliament adopted in the first reading the amendments to the Constitution related to justice reform

02.02.2016 Daily Highlights by the Digests & Analytics Ukraine

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• The Verkhovna Rada adopted in the first reading the amendments to the Constitution related to justice reform.
• First anniversary of the death of the singer and public figure Kuzma Skryabin.
• Infamous judge Vovk returned to work in the Pechersk district court of Kyiv.
• Military Prosecutor Matios called the Volunteer Ukrainian Corps of the Right Sector an illegal armed group.

01/28/2016 Ukraine: Daily Highlights -The Parliament adopted an amendment to the regulations, which changes the Constitution

Deputy Head of the Parliament Syroyid

01.28.2016 Daily Highlights by the Digests & Analytics Ukraine

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• The Parliament adopted an amendment to the regulations, which changes the Constitution.
• The procedure to obtain Ukrainian citizenship was simplified for foreigners, serving in the Ukrainian army.
• The EU Court lifted sanctions against the officials of the Yanukovych regime.
  

01/26/2016 Ukraine: Daily Highlights - Ukraine ranked 130th in Corruption Perception Index

Ukraine ranked 130th in Corruption Perception Index

01.26.2016 Daily Highlights by the Digests & Analytics Ukraine

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• Ukraine ranked 130th in Corruption Perception Index.
• Repeat election has been scheduled in Kryvyi Rih.
• MPs want to hear Yatsenyuk’s government report on February 5.
• Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov lied about Russia's commitments under the Budapest memorandum.

01/24/2016 Ukraine: Daily Highlights - Prime Minister Yatsenyuk called for the adoption of the Constitution via referendum

Prime Minister Yatsenyuk called for the adoption of the Constitution via referendum

01.24.2016 Daily Highlights by the Digests & Analytics Ukraine

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• Prime Minister Yatsenyuk called for the adoption of the Constitution via referendum.
• About 300 people died of flu epidemy in the occupied Donbass .
• The "Batkivschyna" party  demands the resignation of the Cabinet.

01/23/2016 Ukraine: Daily Highlights - Klitschko was elected Head of the Association of Ukrainian Cities

Klitschko was elected Head of the Association of Ukrainian Cities

01.23.2016 Daily Highlights by the Digests & Analytics Ukraine

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• Klitschko was elected Head of the Association of Ukrainian Cities.
• US Ambassador Pyatt insists on the adoption of the "decentralization" by the Parliament.
• Poroshenko said that Ukraine would recover the control of Donbas in 2016.
• MP Parasyuk threw a glass at the public prosecutor at the trial against the Right Sector members.

Key Events in Ukraine

• President Poroshenko is confident that the Parliament already has 300 votes to adopt the amendments to the Constitution to be voted at the next Parliament session in the first six months of the year, immediately after Ukraine gains control over its state border with Russia. He said that decentralization and constitutional amendments exclude the adoption of laws on the special status of any territory, and the project does not have a "black cat of federalization." Poroshenko claims that derailing the Minsk Agreements and blocking the constitutional process would lead to a full-scale conflict with Russia. According to him, Ukraine will regain control of Donbas in 2016.
• In honor of the Ukrainian Unity Day, Poroshenko presented state decorations to Ukrainians, who have made contributions to the development and unity of the country.
• A conference of Mayors - members of the Association of Ukrainian cities was held in Kyiv, where Kyiv Mayor Klitschko was elected its Head. Lviv Mayor Sadovy said that for Klitschko to be elected, the statute was changed illegitimately, while the Lviv Mayor's candidacy was not even voted. Klitschko believes that he has nothing to apologize for, since he received the majority of votes according to the procedure defined by the Association.
• Parliament Speaker Groisman said that he would sign the law on elections in Kryvyi Rih after the MPs cancel the results of the previous elections. He also said that the amendment to the budget providing for e-declaration of income will be considered by the Parliament next week.
• Finance Minister Yaresko believes that the issue of "Yanukovych’s debt" can be settled through negotiations with Russia without recourse to court proceedings. А meeting of Ukrainian and Russian officials to discuss the debt restructuring could be held in the near future.
• Ukroboronprom Press Service reported that at the meeting of the company’s management with Assistant Secretary of State Rose it was decided to implement joint projects for the production of modern weapons and cooperation in the security area.
• Prosecutor General's Office said that the case of the transfer of weapons to “titushky” fighters during the events on Maidan by the former management and employees of the Interior Ministry was submitted to court.
• The trial on the fight at Dragobrat resort upheld the detention of two Right Sector members, while two others were released on bail under MPs’ guarantees.

Ukraine at War

• During the fighting in Donbas one soldier was wounded and another killed in a trip wire explosion. The militants continue firing along the entire front line in the Donetsk region, from Svetlodarsk to Shyrokyne, with most intense fighting at the Donetsk Airport. Intelligence provided to the OSCE mission the data on the concentration of tanks and self-propelled guns in Donetsk and near Yenakiyeve.
• According to the Border Guard Service, the FSB has established a channel of smuggling to Europe the cigarettes produced in Donetsk. The owner of the tobacco factory, crime boss Lyashko, oligarch Akhmetov's closest partner, was killed in December in Crimea.

Ukraine and the World

• Ambassador to Ukraine Pyatt said at the conference of the Association of Ukrainian Cities that the Parliament must accept the amendments to the Constitution related to the "decentralization" of power. According to him, Ukraine has already achieved a lot in terms of improving the legislation, and USAID will open a new partnership program to support the decentralization of local government.
• Vice President Biden said the United States and Turkey were ready to resort to the military solution to the conflict in Syria should the process of political settlement fail.

The Trends

• According to former Deputy Head of the Central Election Commission and Ukraine representative at the Venice Commission in 2009-2014 Maryna Stavniychuk, manipulations with the constitutional process continue. The Constitutional Court approves in an emergency mode any proposal of the President, and takes years to consider submissions and request that are disadvantageous to the President and his team. A characteristic feature of the current government is the reluctance to take responsibility for its mistakes and the desire to shift it to others at the cost of humiliating the Constitution. According to Stavniychuk, the judicial reform is being carried out by passing the laws that are beneficial from the point of view of the political situation, rather than introducing balanced amendments to the Constitution. The changes to the Constitution proposed by means of transitional provisions are aimed at strengthening the President's direct influence over the judiciary. She is convinced that the Parliament should reject populism and implement the reform within fixed terms, gradually creating the atmosphere of public trust to the judicial system.
• According to some analysts, the announcement made by President Poroshenko on the availability of 300 votes in Parliament to adopt the amendments to the Constitution indicates the pressure on the Parliament to adopt them, and his statement that the proposed changes do not provide for the special status of territories is a lie and manipulative deception, since the transitional provisions refer to the law on the special status of certain districts of Donetsk and Luhansk regions.

01/20/2016 Ukraine: Daily Highlights - Militants disrupted the exchange of prisoners and demand to hold elections without the Ukrainian authorities participation

Militants disrupted the exchange of prisoners

01.20.2016 Daily Highlights by the Digests & Analytics Ukraine

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• Militants disrupted the exchange of prisoners and demand to hold elections without the Ukrainian authorities participation.
• The list of Russian goods, prohibited to import to Ukraine, was expanded.
• Soviet emblem will be removed from the shield of the Motherland Monument in Kyiv.

01/19/2016 Ukraine: Daily Highlights - Gazprom demanded from Ukraine the payment for natural gas not supplied

Gazprom demanded from Ukraine the payment for natural gas not supplied

01.19.2016 Daily Highlights by the Digests & Analytics Ukraine

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• Gazprom demanded from Ukraine the payment for natural gas not supplied.
• Police published an edited video of the detention of the Right Sector volunteers in Transcarpathia.
• Poland says it has about one million migrants from Ukraine.
• Hryvnia exchange rate on the interbank market continues to fall.

01/15/2016 Ukraine: Daily Highlights - US Assistant Secretary of State Nuland and Russian president’s assistant Surkov discussed the situation in Ukraine

Nuland and Surkov discussed the situation in Ukraine

01.15.2016 Daily Highlights by the Digests & Analytics Ukraine

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• US Assistant Secretary of State Nuland and Russian president’s assistant Surkov discussed the situation in Ukraine.
• Dutch citizens selling counterfeit foreign currency were detained in Kyiv.
• Seventh wave of mobilization will be held.

12/22/2015 Ukraine: Daily Highlights - The Parliament adopted in the first reading the amendments to the Constitution on the judicial reform

The Parliament adopted in the first reading the amendments to the Constitution on the judicial reform

12.22.2015 Daily Highlights by the Digests & Analytics Ukraine Agency

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• The Parliament adopted in the first reading the amendments to the Constitution on the judicial reform.
• US imposed additional sectoral sanctions on Russian companies and banks.
• The “enforcer” of oligarch Akhmetov’s  business in Donetsk was killed in Crimea.

11/25/2015 Ukraine: Daily Highlights - Transit traffic of Russian airplanes over Ukraine was banned

Transit traffic of Russian airplanes over Ukraine was banned

11.25.2015 Daily Highlights by the Digests & Analytics Ukraine Agency

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• Transit traffic of Russian airplanes over Ukraine was banned.
• President Poroshenko submitted to the Parliament draft amendments to the Constitution on the ​​judicial reform.
• The militants renewed shelling of the Ukrainian territory using MLRS "Grad".
• Import duty on electric vehicles was abolished .

08/31/2015 Ukraine: Daily Highlights - MPs approved amendments to the Constitution in the first reading

MPs approved amendments to the Constitution in the first reading

08.31.2015 Daily Highlights by the Digests & Analytics Ukraine News Agency

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• MPs approved amendments to the Constitution in the first reading.
• A tragedy in front of the Verkhovna Rada building.

08/30/2015 Ukraine: Daily Highlights - Prime Minister Yatsenyuk promised to raise pensions and salaries to state employees starting September 1

Prime Minister Yatsenyuk promised to raise salaries to state employees starting September 1

08.30.2015 Daily Highlights by the Digests & Analytics Ukraine News Agency

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• Prime Minister Yatsenyuk promised to raise pensions and salaries to state employees starting September 1.
• A quiet day in Donbas.
• In Odessa, Automaidan stormed a building belonging to the former chairman of the CEC Kivalov.

08/21/2015 Ukraine: Daily Highlights - An extraordinary session of the Verkhovna Rada is scheduled for August 31

An extraordinary session of the Verkhovna Rada is scheduled for August 31

08.21.2015 Daily Highlights by the Digests & Analytics Ukraine News Agency

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• An extraordinary session of the Verkhovna Rada is scheduled for August 31.
• Minister of Economic Development Abromavicius said about the facts of large-scale thefts of fuel and grain from the state reserve.
• Chief of General Staff Muzhenko trying to shift the responsibility for the defeat in Ilovaisk at the Interior Ministry.

08/19/2015 Ukraine: Daily Highlights -Changes to the Constitution are to be adopted during the session of the Verkhovna Rada on 27 August

Changes to the Constitution are to be adopted on 27 August

08.19.2015 Daily Highlights by the Digests & Analytics Ukraine News Agency

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• Changes to the Constitution are to be adopted during the session of the Verkhovna Rada on 27 August.
• Kiev dropped to 132nd position out of 140 in standards of living rating among the largest cities in the world.

08/09/2015 Ukraine: Daily Highlights - Prime Minister Yatsenyuk promises the personnel purges in the Cabinet in September

Prime Minister Yatsenyuk promises the personnel purges in the Cabinet in September

08.09.2015 Daily Highlights by the Digests & Analytics Ukraine News Agency

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• Prime Minister Yatsenyuk promises the personnel purges in the Cabinet in September.

• The situation is escalating in the Donbass, many casualties among military and civilians.

07/19/2015 Ukraine: Daily Highlights - The occupied Donetsk was shelled by the militants themselves

The occupied Donetsk was shelled by the militants themselves

07.19.2015 Daily Highlights by the Digests & Analytics Ukraine News Agency

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• The occupied Donetsk was shelled by the militants themselves.
• Poroshenko said that a special regime in the occupied Donbass might not come into force.
• Director of the Odessa Film Festival was hit by a car in front of the police officers.

Key Events In Ukraine

• President Poroshenko appointed Head of the Anti-Terrorist Center Malyshev and Head of the Anti-Corruption Centre Trepak Deputy Heads of the Security Service of Ukraine .
• Prime Minister Yatsenyuk announced about the creation of the National Employment Agency instead of the existing employment services, the tasks of the Agency will include employment and vocational training for the persons who lost their jobs.
• Ukraine  is not consuming Russian natural gas for two weeks, but only carries out its transit to Europe. Every day about 30 million m3 of natural gas is being pumped into storage, half of it is of own production, the rest is a reverse supply from Slovakia.

Ukraine at War

• The OSCE report recorded the escalation of the situation in the Donbass. The mission confirmed that on July 18 the shelling of Donetsk was carried out by the militants. The Ukrainian side published the radio interception, where the militants were discussing the directions of the shelling. Despite the evidence, the leadership of the self-proclaimed Donetsk republic threaten to destruct  Avdiyivka if the "shellings of Donetsk continue".  Heavy fighting continued in Maryinka, due to the shellings, the residential blocks were damaged, there are casualties among the civilians. During the previous day, according to the official reports, one soldier was kiled and seven soldiers were injured .
  During the battle in Shyrokine, the "Donbass"  battalion captured the IFV with the full ammunition load.
• The Security Service of Ukraine reports on the prevention of numerous terrorist attacks across Ukraine and the detention of a large number of trucks with contraband products that were trying to break into the occupied territory.

Ukraine and the World

• Minister of Energy and Natural Resources of Turkey Yıldız said that the country is not going to make concessions to Russia and will not be an average transit country, as this contradicts its economic interests. The problem cannot be solved by a simple granting of the  discounts for the natural gas. Russia is building new gas pipelines through Turkey at its own expense.
• French President Hollande in response to the Greek crisis, offers to create the Eurozone  Government and the parliamentary body, responsible for making decisions.

The Trends

• The experts say that when Ukraine signed the second Minsk agreements, it had committed itself to conduct a constitutional reform, which includes granting of the special status to the territories of Donbass and amnesty to the militants, moreover, these actions are not connected with the implementation of the agreements by Russia and militants under its control. Therefore, the introduction to the text of the Constitution of the references to the law violates the equality of the rights of citizens of different regions of Ukraine and makes the sacrifices during the fighting in the Donbass meaningless . The militants, responsible for the killings and violations of human rights, will still be amnestied. Despite this, President Poroshenko claims that there is no threat to the sovereignty of Ukraine in the proposed version of changes to the Constitution .

07/18/2015 Ukraine: Daily Highlights - Military operation to capture the soldiers of the “Right sector" is being carried out in Transcarpathia

Military operation to capture the soldiers of the “Right sector" is being carried out in Transcarpathia

07.18.2015 Daily Highlights by the Digests & Analytics Ukraine News Agency

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• Military operation to capture the soldiers of the “Right sector" is being carried out in Transcarpathia.
• Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said that Latvia arrested money and assets of escaped oligarch Kurchenko.
• A new Russian assistant of Odessa governor Saakashvili believes that the annexation of the Crimea is already accomplished.

07/16/2015 Ukraine: Daily Highlights - The Parliament adopted the amendments to the Constitution in the first reading

Ambassador to Ukraine Pyatt and US State Dept. spokesman Nuland in the Verkhovna Rada

07.16.2015 Daily Highlights by the Digests & Analytics Ukraine News Agency

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• The Parliament adopted the amendments to the Constitution in the first reading.
• MPs voted for the laws necessary to obtain the  international financial assistance.
• President Poroshenko is confident of the continuation of the Russian aggression.
• Owners of mobile coffee salespoints blocked the traffic on Khreshchatyk.
• The Head of the Transcarpathian Regional State Administration promised to completely block the smuggling.