Andriy Tychyna

If Verkhovna Rada is to be the hub of political developments, the parliamentary day of February 22 ended with two negatives: Prosecutor General Mykhailo Potebenko was not dismissed, nor was a new parliamentary majority coordinator elected, with the election of one postponed until March. The third...

“Once a place of political battles and a generator of instability impulses, Verkhovna Rada has now made a notable progress in its resolutions and actions toward becoming constructive, predictable, and responsible. The speeding up and qualitative improvement of the legislative process, closer...

The Constitutional Court’s decision distancing it from the Verkhovna Rada goings-on and referring the case to the Prosecutor’s Office automatically acquitted the majority of all charges of unconstitutional acts but left open the issue of whether or not these people have violated any procedural...

“ The position of individuals in this country is being determined by the struggle among the oligarchs.” Naturally, voicing this idea in the parliamentary cloakroom during a break between the debates on the Prosecutor General’s request to bring to justice People’s Deputy Ahafonov and on the...

Before the parliamentary elections two years [March 1998], political parties from the right, center and left began to appear like mushrooms after the rain, and the election ballots looked as big as bed sheets. When then a surprised journalist cried out: “What are you doing? None of you will...

The following article will hopefully give the reader some idea how the referendum results have been evolving into a political football. (—Ed.) The penchant for May Day rallies is coming back to this country. Each year since Ukraine’s independence, the first day of the last spring month has been...

Many analysts have pointed out that the Constitutional Court ruling on the referendum posed more questions than it answered existing ones. Indeed, the CC virtuosi managed to arrive at a decision acceptable to all or, in any case, not hurting anybody’s feelings. Presidential Press Secretary...

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has handed over to the Verkhovna Rada Speaker a list of seven deputies now under scrutiny at the Prosecutor General’s Office. SBU chairman Leonid Derkach announced this at a press conference on March 24. The hit list includes deputies Valery Babych (former...

“I was shocked all right,” Oleksandr Volkov said, coming out of the Verkhovna Rada hall on Tuesday February 29 after it had been announced that a Deputies’ group called Solidarity was formed in Parliament. History will never know the mysterious words he whispered in the ear of Petro Poroshenko, the...

November 7, commemorating another anniversary of the Bolshevik coup (still remembered by many as the Great October Socialist Revolution of 1917), will no longer be observed in Ukraine. Toward the end of the session held by the Verkhovna Rada’s parliamentary majority at the Ukraine House, the...