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Zelensky signs historic tax increase in Ukraine

Zelensky signs historic tax increase in Ukraine

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky has signed Law No. 11416-d, enacting a historic tax increase. This was reported on the website of the Verkhovna Rada. According to Deputy Head of the Tax Committee Yaroslav Zheleznyak, the law will come into effect on November 30. As previously reported, the tax increase includes the following changes: Artur Kryzhnyi

Iryna Farion: During this terrible and wild war cynical beings in Ukrainian parliament are looting the last budget funds

Iryna Farion: During this terrible and wild war cynical beings in Ukrainian parliament are looting the last budget funds

Each of you who donates, from the smallest contribution to the largest, is also contributing to the heroism of our soldiers. And against the backdrop of this fundraising from all over the world, we hear today the fantastic news that our Verkhovna Rada, or rather a group undermining Ukrainian statehood—I’d now call them that—at least the absolute majority of them, […]

Ukraine welcomes top corruption: high fines instead of criminal liability

Ukraine welcomes top corruption: high fines instead of criminal liability

Ukrainian deputies passed a law replacing criminal liability for top corruption with top fines: a disgrace for the president’s party. Ukrainian soldiers are risking their lives to defend the country, while Ukrainian MPs instead of saving the soldiers, voted for a law to save the corruption. Today, the Servant of the People faction in the Verkhovna Rada voted for Law […]

Demobilization law does not exists. Ukrainian soldiers may return home dead or heavily wounded

Demobilization law does not exists. Ukrainian soldiers may return home dead or heavily wounded

Demobilization law does not exists. Ukrainian soldiers may return home dead or heavily wounded. Tim Zlatkin‘s analysis. So, what’s up with the demobilization law? Have they forgotten and blew off it? You, guys, just fight, and don’t talk shit on social media??  We will not give you a vacation, and if we will, then for two weeks, no more, because there is no one to fight,we have fucked up mobilization. Regular rotations? Don’t buy that […]

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine increases defence spending

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine increases defence spending

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine increased defence spending by more than UAH 300 billion. The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has adopted a law to increase state budget expenditures in 2023 by more than UAH 300 billion, mainly for defense. This was reported by RBC-Ukraine with reference to Yaroslav Zheleznyak, a member of the Verkhovna Rada’s Finance Committee. According to him, bill […]

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine failure to vote on the law against Putin’s wallet

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine failure to vote on the law against Putin’s wallet

Arakhamiya explained Verkhovna Rada’s failure to vote on the law for the nationalization of the former Alfa Bank. To remind, one of the main bank holder is Putin’s wallet, co-owner of Alfa-Bank Mykhail Friedman. Deputies did not support the adoption in the second reading of draft law No.9107-1, which allows for the nationalization and withdrawal from the market of banks […]

The middle finger gesture toward Yermak: MP Leros won lawsuit against the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine

The middle finger gesture toward Yermak: MP Leros won lawsuit against the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine

The case about the middle finger gesture toward Yermak: MP Leros won lawsuit against the Verkhovna Rada. Geo Leros announced that he had won the court case against the Verkhovna Rada relating to his illegal suspension from attending plenary sessions for a year.   He wrote about this on Tuesday, May 2, 2023. Leros emphasized that he was suspended for asking the head of the SBU: “when will Kremlin agent Yermak be imprisoned […]

Escalation around Ukraine’s borders: Rada addresses foreign parliaments

Escalation around Ukraine’s borders: Rada addresses foreign parliaments

The Verkhovna Rada appealed to the parliaments and governments of foreign states in connection with the escalation of the security situation around Ukraine by the Russian Federation. Direct speech of Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Ruslan Stefanchuk: “Draft resolution №7045 proposes: 1) to approve the appeal to these organizations, measures to curb Russia’s military plans for Ukraine; 2) […]

The Verkhovna Rada approves the state budget of Ukraine for 2022

The Verkhovna Rada approves the state budget of Ukraine for 2022

The state budget of Ukraine for 2022 provides for an increase in the minimum wage to 6,500 hryvnias from January 2022. At the same time, GDP growth is projected at 3.8 percent and inflation at 6.2 %.  The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine generally supported the 2022 state budget with a deficit of 3.5 percent of GDP. On Thursday, December 2, 268 MPs […]

Zelensky’s annual address: a rally and police under the Verkhovna Rada

Zelensky’s annual address: a rally and police under the Verkhovna Rada

On December 1, there is a rally close to the Verkhovna Rada, where President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky is to deliver his annual address. Hrushevskoho Street has not been blocked yet, but there are many law enforcers outside the Parliament. There are dozens of law enforcement officers in full riot gear, the National Guard and the Dialogue Police near the […]

The Verkhovna Rada appeals to the UN on Ukraine’s plan to combat climate change

The Verkhovna Rada appeals to the UN on Ukraine’s plan to combat climate change

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine approved the appeal to the UN, in which it confirmed its aspiration to fulfill the goals of the Paris Agreement of climate change and to update the environmental legislation. The appeal was supported by 271 MPs.    The Verkhovna Rada addressed the UN Conference on Climate Change (COP26) in support of global climate change goals. In […]

Ukraine opens the land market

Ukraine opens the land market

Ukraine opens the land market. The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted a law on the circulation of agricultural land. The decision was supported by 259 MPs. The updated version of the document lifts the moratorium on the sale of agricultural land from the second half of 2021.

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