Similarly to two previous elections, regular local elections are to be held whilst the Russian Federation continues its military aggression and some of Ukrainian territories are temporarily occupied. These circumstances destabilize political situation in Ukraine and, in particular, make it impossible to hold elections in accordance with European democratic standards on the certain territories of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts. Although the CEC has already provided the list local councils in Luha...

DESCRIPTIVE NOTES   From February to August 2015 the Civil Network OPORA with the partnership of International Foundation of electoral systems (IFES) conducted monitoring of the activities of law enforcement agencies and judicial institutions of Ukraine related to investigation of  crimes  expressly or by implication associated with electoral process.  The subjects of monitoring were: 1) crimes against voting rights of citizens during the extraordinary parliamentary elec...

DESCRIPTIVE NOTES  From February to August 2015 the Civil Network OPORA with the partnership of International Foundation of electoral systems (IFES) conducted monitoring of the activities of law enforcement agencies and judicial institutions of Ukraine related to investigation of  crimes  expressly or by implication associated with electoral process. The subjects of monitoring were: 1) crimes against voting rights of citizens during the extraordinary parliamentary elections i...

  On the 9th of September  public discussion "Have the falsificators of Parliamentary Election 2014 been punished and how to prevent violations at the local elections?" will be held from 15:00 to 17:00 in Kyiv (Yaroslaviv Val str., 22, Radisson Blue Hotel, conference room Embassy Suite 2 + 4). Organizers of the event are the Civil Network OPORA and the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES), presenting the results of monitoring of law enforcement and judicial institutions of U...

Mayor of Vasylkiv City Serhii Sabov continues making personal political statements on the official web-portal of Vasylkiv City Council.

The secret became apparent today: delegates elected Vitalii Klychko as the Head of Petro Poroshenko Block 'Solidarity' party, and 18 more members of Klychko team joined the presidential party. Petro Poroshenko has visited the congress to welcome such union on the eve of local elections. However, the name of united party, how regional offices are going to unite and other UDAR members are going to join the presidential party, as well as the future of UDAR party in politics is still un...

Representatives of Ukrainian Union of Patriots – UKROP have announced today that local party branches will be created in all Lviv oblast raions. According to Ihor Telishevskyi, the largest number of party representatives will be from middle business “who are tired of bringing money to ruling officials”. He said that representatives of other parties' local organizations like Front for Change, Batkivshchyna, UDAR and Svoboda will join the party.

Today, on 27 August, on the beginning of Lviv City Council's regular sitting, City Mayor Andrii Sadovyi announced the creation of a new group of councilors titled UKROP. Reaction of Svoboda faction members was quite extraordinary – they presented two packages of buckwheat to members of this new group.