This weekly program provides the audience information about activities and inaction of MPs, their salaries, offices, internal matters, soviet spirit of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine and international experience of parliamentarism. This program is goaled to explain complicated things in a comprehensible way and make people smile if there is a reason.

On 27 March 2015 at 10:00 AM, a public discussion titled "Electoral reform: transparent financing and meaningful campaigning" is to be held. This public discussion will help to find answers on how to overcome challenges of reforming and help politicians to take well-weighed decisions and secure a real election law reform. Registration deadline – 25 March.

TV program Dear Deputies is a joint project of the OPORA, Hromadske TV, and the First National TV Channel. This weekly program provides the audience information about activities and inaction of MPs, their salaries, offices, internal matters, soviet spirit of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine and international experience of parliamentarism. This program is goaled to explain complicated things in a comprehensible way and make people smile if there is a reason.

Although there are only 7 months left to local elections in Ukraine, the newly-elected Parliament made no substantial changes to secure their conduct on a high level of quality and in accordance with international democratic standards for the last 3 months of its activities. Therefore, a roundtable was held on 12 March in Kyiv, dedicated to local elections. The roundtable was initiated by the VRU Committee on Judicial Policy and Justice, a group of NGO consisting of Civil Network OPORA, Inter...

Taking into consideration that regular local elections are to be held in 7 months and the corresponding amendments to the Law are not drafted and adopted by MPs yet, a group of NGOs including the Civil Network OPORA, Internews-Ukraine, Ukrainian Center for Independent Political Research (UCIPR) with assistance of the International Foundation for Electoral Systems have developed a Concept of the amended Law of Ukraine in the Elections of Deputies to the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Depu...

  On 7 March 2015, there were 100 days since the MPs of Ukraine of VIII convocation have taken the authority. For these first 100 days, Ukrainian Parliament has managed to conduct 30 plenary meetings and pass 379 decisions. The current convocation of the Parliament started working in a more organized way and will less conflicts if compared to the previous convocation. For example, in contrast to the Parliament of VII convocation which had started its functioning with ten days of rostrum bloc...

  For the first 100 days, Ukrainian Parliament has managed to conduct 30 plenary meetings and pass 379 decisions. A fruitful cooperation was established between the Parliament, the Cabinet of Ministers, and the President. Thus, MPs of Ukraine have supported a lot of governmental and presidential legislative initiatives. However,the Opposition Block didn't vote on almost a half of all agenda items, emphasizing its oppositional status in such a way. Besides that, non-personal voting remai...

Fuel, money, fancy cars and outstanding fights - is this Hollywood? No, it's Ukrainian Parliament. The eights series of the Dear Deputies we'll ask a one million question: why does the Committee on Economic Policy disrupts consideration of the bill concerning the Ukrnafta? What is in the Parliament's garage? Which profession MPs had before election in 2014?  The most outstanding fights of the last year.