President Vladimir Zelensky‘s ‘Servant of People‘ party is winning the snap parliamentary election in Ukraine with 43.16% of the votes, the Central Election Commission (CEC) informed after all 100% of the ballots have been counted. Results of #Ukraine's 2019 parliamentary #elections: unprecedented single-party majority (w/"Servant of the People"taking 254 out of 225 necessary seats); @ua_parliament…
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Hungary considers Ukraine language law “unacceptable”
Péter Szijjártó, Hungary Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade called the Ukrainian language law voted on Thursday (April 25) “unacceptable“. The law is violating the rights of the Hungarian national community and evokes the spirit of the outgoing President, Petro Porosenko, who pursued anti-Hungarian policy, Szijjártó said. The Ukrainian voters however, by a large majority, elected…
10 years of prison for bilingualism in Ukraine
The voted in the Ukrainian parliament law on official language (nr.5670) significantly impacts the state policy in use of the Ukrainian, according to the authors ensuring the functioning of the Ukrainian language as the state language. It also proposed to fine officials, deputies, and other officials if they decline speaking the state language at work…
Ukraine language law against minorities
Ukrainian parliament – Verkhovna Rada – adopted the law “Providing the functioning of the Ukrainian language as the official one,” which discriminates all the other languages in the country. This decision was backed by 278 MPs. Expect another round of Hungarian-Ukrainian diplomatic tensions as Ukraine’s parliament adopts a new, restrictive & nationalistic language law. It…
Ukrainian MP arrested in absentia for Russian diplomatic mission attack
Four Ukrainian nationals, including member of the parliament – Verkhovna Rada -Vladimir Parasyuk, have been arrested in absentia in Russia for attacking Russian diplomatic missions in 2014-2016 and put on the international wanted list, Russian Investigative Committee Spokesperson Svetlana Petrenko. Four Ukrainian citizens arrested in absentia for attacking Russian diplomatic missions https://t.co/pYaQRkle1W© Anton Novoderezhkin/TASS pic.twitter.com/ndoL4rSPhP…
Special status of Donbass prolonged
Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada (parliament) has passed a law “On creating conditions for a peaceful settlement of the situation in separate districts of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions” extending the special status of the Donbass region by one year. However, it contains the provisions, according to which the special status will come into force only after…
General Prosecutor seat for a billion? – Shokin case
The Front News International news agency published leaked documents on alleged intervention of US officials in the internal affairs of Ukraine, describing an episode of then the US Vice President Joe Biden conditioning President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko for a $ 1 billion loan with the replacement of Attorney General Viktor Shokin. The application of pressure could be…
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