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Parliament allows officials to continue concealing income and expenditure
13.01.2011
The Verkhovna Rada has failed to support a draft law which would have obliged high-ranking public officials carrying out State and local self-government functions and members of their family to declare income and expenditure
Ukraine trailing all European countries in economic freedom ratings
13.01.2011
According to the 2011 Index of Economic Freedom published by the The Wall Street Journal and The Heritage Foundation, Ukraine has the worst rating of 43 countries in Europe and is in 164th place out of 179 countries. Its figures have been getting worse for several years in a row.
Undermining the Tax Code Protesters’ Maidan?
05.01.2011
The authorities are for the nth time shooting themselves in the foot, and seem incapable of grasping that methods of force against ones own people are doomed to crashing defeat.
Call for Veto on Law alleged to restrict inconvenient trade unions
05.01.2011
Ukraine’s trade union leaders are demanding that the President vetoes the Law on Social Dialogue which they believe imposes discrimination and restricts the rights of trade union organizations not close to the regime
New legislation denies small shareholder their rights
29.12.2010
On 22 December 2010 a law was passed which forces small shareholders to sell their shares to a large shareholder or joint group of shares owning more than 95% of the company’s shares
Reformers of the Mining Industry – Miners’ Opinion not needed?
28.12.2010
Plans to close or privatize mines are being made without any consultation with specialists and those most immediately affected
Ongoing Ukrainian Saga of not fighting corruption
27.12.2010
The new draft law, presented by the President two weeks before important anti-corruption laws should have come into force but were instead revoked, removes any demand for income declarations
Police detain “or summon for questioning” two Tax Code Protesters
17.12.2010
The National Coordination Council of Ukrainian Entrepreneurs reported on Thursday that two participants in the protests against the new Tax Code had been detained by the police. The police claim they were taken for questioning as witnesses
12 million Ukrainians do not reach the minimum subsistence level
15.12.2010
23% of Ukrainians in urban areas and every third person – 38% - in rural areas receive incomes lower than the minimum subsistence level
Draft law would give tax concessions to the Moscow Patriarchate
15.12.2010
Two National Deputies from the Party of the Regions are proposing to waive tax on the construction of the tallest cathedral in Europe which the Orthodox Church under the Moscow Patriarchate is undertaking in Kyiv
Budget authors kind to their own?
14.12.2010
Expenditure is particularly high for the Management of Affairs (servicing the President) with this increasing by 400 million UAH in the draft 2011 Budget
So how long can Ukraine defer measures against corruption?
10.12.2010
According to Transparency International’s 2010 Global Corruption Barometer the sitiuation in Ukraine has worsened since last year, and the 34% who reported having paid bribes during the last year was considerably worse than in Russia (26% and Belarus (27%),
Restricting maximum pension size: reform or more PR?
08.12.2010
The government has long come up against the lack of divide in legislation between guarantees which by their very essence are socio-economic rights with provisions which are effectively privileges
Criminal investigation initiated over alleged damage from Tax Code Protesters’ tent camp
06.12.2010
The Article of the Criminal Code being applied is over deliberate damage, and one of the protests organizers has been summoned for questioning
Will the anti-corruption laws finally come into effect?
06.12.2010
From 1 January 20100 a package of anti-corruption laws are due to come into force, however it is not inconceivable that parliamentarians will again defer this
“New Citizen” Appeal against the Dismantling of the Protesters’ tents on Maidan
04.12.2010
We declare our readiness to support reform in Ukraine and take responsibility for them. We are ready to pay higher taxes, but we must know everything about how the money is spent. We are ready to receive less social guarantees, but on condition that the authorities begin qualitative changes on themselves.
Protesters’ tent camp on Maidan forcibly removed “in 20 minutes”
03.12.2010
In Kyiv workers of the municipal services, with the support of the police, have removed the tent camp on Maidan Nezalezhnosti [Independence Square]. The tents had been there for two weeks in protest over the new Tax Code
With regard to the second reading of the draft Housing Code
03.12.2010
The Kharkiv Human Rights Group has expressed concern over certain features of the proposed Housing Code and calls for widespread discussion of its provisions
Ukrainian Association of Press Publishers calls for full coverage of Tax Code before Thursday
01.12.2010
They call for maximum coverage of the process of amending and supplementing the Tax Code, as well as discussion of the positive and negative impact of the Code’s adoption.
President says he has vetoed the Tax Code
30.11.2010
After weeks of mass protest, President Yanukovych has announced that he is vetoing the new Tax Code, although will sign it if some demands which he does not specify are met by Thursday
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