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Skip to main content [#main-content] Search form Search USAID RADA Program RESPONSIBLE ACCOUNTABLE DEMOCRATIC ASSEMBLY HOME ABOUT RADA RADA NEWS & EVENTS WITHIN THE SCOPE OF INTEREST PARLIAMENTARY REFORM RULES OF PROCEDURE HOUR OF QUESTIONS TO THE GOVERNMENT MATERIALS RADA PROGRAM PUBLICATIONS HOW GOVERNMENT WORKS IN UKRAINE PDP and PDP II ARCHIVE PUBLICATIONS CONTACTS UKRAINIAN RADA Program News and Events USAID RADA Program presented its activities during Mistechko USAID fair in Odesa Officials determined a gender indicator of the work of the VR for 2017 USAID RADA Program partner Civil Network OPORA presented results of the monitoring of deputies USAID RADA Program partner Internews Ukraine trains VR staff in effective communications 50 interns successfully completed the internship program in the Verkhovna Rada Within the Scope of Interest Hour of Questions to the Government in the Verkhovna Rada Fri, 08/09/2017 - 15:00 The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine hosted "an hour of questions to the Government of Ukraine." Andrii Reva, Minister for Social Policy of Ukraine delivered a speech during the Hour about the bill on pension reform, which is ready for the second reading in the Parliament. He highlighted the scheme on the conditions of the deficit-free pension fund and noted that there will be a ten-year transition period. MPs twice failed to cancel breaks during today’s sitting Thu, 07/09/2017 - 10:15 Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Andriy Parubiy has proposed to cancel the 30-minutes break during today’s morning sitting and 2-hours break between morning and evening sittings. However, this motion didn’t find the support among MPs. There were 2 failed attempts, which showed that only 194 parliamentarians are “for” work without breaks. Later Parubiy has proposed again to cancel 2-hours break between morning and evening sittings as there are a lot work in order to consider bill on judicial reform, which has about 5000 proposals. Annual address of the President of Ukraine to the Verkhovna Rada Thu, 07/09/2017 - 10:15 President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko delivered his annual address ‘On the internal and external situation of Ukraine in 2017’ to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. He also presented to MPs a so-called “long read”, namely analytical report of the National Institute for Strategic Studies about situation of Ukraine. Verkhovna Rada adopted agenda for this week, September 5-8 Tue, 05/09/2017 - 11:15 The Parliament of Ukraine failed to adopt draft resolution No. 7068 on the agenda of 7th session of Verkhovna Rada of 8th convocation and adopted the agenda only for this week, September 5 – 8. For adoption of the agenda of the 7 th session voted only 158 MPs and adoption of the agenda for this week met support of 226 people’s deputies. There were 4 failed attempts to adopt the agenda for this week. 7th session of Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of 8th convocation opened Tue, 05/09/2017 - 10:15 Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Andriy Parubiy opened the 7th session of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of the 8th convocation. After the start of the plenary sitting Parubiy delivered his speech from the rostrum. “Any reform is worth nothing if we do not protect the Ukrainian state”, he stressed. “A new session is opportunities”, said Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Groysman, who arrived in the parliament for opening of the 7th session. Read all news Implementers New Publications Guide on Anti-Corruption in Ukraine A Methodology aimed at discounting electoral districts “hand-feeding” practices and political corruption. The Concept of Comprehensive Amendments to the Rules of Procedure of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (draft) THE NINTH SURVEY OF THE MEMBERS OF THE UKRAINIAN PARLIAMENT The Basic Aspects of Lawmaking. (Handbook) Follow Us Facebook YouTube This site (RSS) This site was made possible through support provided by the Office of Democracy and Governance, U.S. Agency for International Development Regional Mission for Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova, within the framework of the RESPONSIBLE ACCOUNTABLE DEMOCRATIC ASSEMBLY (RADA) PROGRAM IN UKRAINE under the terms of Cooperative Agreement No. AID-121-A-14-00001. The opinions expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the RADA Program staff, U.S. Agency for International Development and/or Government of the United States.