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War in Ukraine
Kyiv has set aside $47 billion, 22 percent of the country’s GDP, for defense in Ukraine’s second wartime budget following Russia’s full-scale invasion.
Nov. 13, 2023
Hungary
Budapest, which has maintained friendly relations with the Kremlin despite its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, has categorically opposed Ukraine's EU membership.
Nov. 11, 2023
Legal
The Ukrainian Parliamentary Committee on Human Rights concluded that the proposed draft law to allow those of military age to go abroad is unconstitutional and too open to different interpretations.
Nov. 10, 2023
War in Ukraine
Priority funding in the state budget for next year is for defense, which in total will take about half of all expenditures. The Defense Ministry will receive Hr.1.155 trillion ($32 billion).
Nov. 9, 2023
Ukraine
Ukrainian lawmakers are poised to pass a bill making medicinal cannabis legal. However, amid fears of people getting high in the streets, they insist that recreational use will not be permitted.
Nov. 8, 2023
Ukraine
Ukraine’s international allies have stressed the importance of elections in Ukraine in 2024. But does the public support it, and is it legally possible or even practical in wartime?
Nov. 8, 2023
Corruption Watch
The Secret Services of Ukraine has placed a member of parliament under suspicion for having facilitated the departure abroad of men required to say in the country as per martial law.
Nov. 5, 2023
Ukraine
On Facebook, Ukrainian parliamentarian Andriy Nikolayenko acknowledged running over an 18-year-old girl with his Mercedes-Benz in the Zhytomyr region. He could face three to eight years in prison.
Nov. 3, 2023
Ukraine
Kyiv Post asks pensioners how they get by on a Ukrainian pension that is barely higher than the official subsistence minimum and whether it has a connection with reality.
Nov. 2, 2023
Ukraine
In an interview with Kyiv Post, Roksolana Pidlasa, the chair of the Ukrainian parliament’s budget committee, said that inflation is slowing down.
Oct. 30, 2023
Ukraine
A poll released by the International Republican Institute (IRI) shows that Ukrainians remain quite optimistic. However, 85% oppose holding elections of any sort during the war.
Oct. 29, 2023
Russia
Oleksandr Yefremov and his family own luxury apartments worth more than $4 million in total, including one in the Triumph Palace residential complex.
Oct. 24, 2023
War in Ukraine
Were a draft law passed it would terminate the activities of the Kremlin-backed Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchate (UOC MP).
Oct. 19, 2023
War in Ukraine
The Verkhovna Rada has announced that social spending on the rehabilitation of veterans of Russia's war against Ukraine is to double.
Oct. 18, 2023
Kyiv
A draft law calling for Ukrainian parliamentarians who had been in now-banned pro-Russian parties to be barred from government in the future was criticized by the European Council’s Venice Commission.
Oct. 14, 2023
Ukraine
The exact cause of Ivanchuk’s death is currently unknown, although parliamentarian Oleksiy Goncharenko reported that a blood clot may have been the cause.
Sep. 25, 2023