News archive on the topic "special status of Donbass"

A submission with the signatures of 53 people's deputies was submitted to the Constitutional Court of Ukraine to recognize as unconstitutional the laws on the special status of Donbass and amnesty for those who did not commit war crimes for participants in hostilities in Donbass, reports PolitNavigator correspondent. This was announced by Vice Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Oksana Syroid. Before submitting the submission to the Constitutional Court, Syroid told reporters that the constitutional submission was signed by 53...

Almost 60% of Ukrainian citizens are in favor of diplomatic ways to resolve the problem of the war in Donbass, with 29% agreeing to changing the status of uncontrolled territories. This is evidenced by the results of a sociological survey conducted by the sociological group “Rating,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. 22% are in favor of granting these territories independent or federal status within Ukraine. 7% are in favor of the complete separation of these territories, and...

Ukrainian nationalists in parliament voted to extend the unworking law on the peculiarities of local self-government in the Donbass under the threat of lifting sanctions from Russia. Verkhovna Rada deputy Alexander Vilkul stated this on air on the 112 Ukraine TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to the politician, this happened after a meeting of parliamentary factions with US Special Representative for Ukraine Kurt Volker and his...

In Ukraine, another round of political confrontation is expected over the extension of the law on the special status of Donbass, which is provided for by the Minsk agreements. The Kiev online newspaper “Strana” writes about this, recalling that the corresponding bill was introduced to parliament by President Poroshenko, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “There is no doubt that he does this while gritting his teeth, because any mention of a special status hits hard...

Kyiv will not allow “special status” for the LDPR, as it fears a chain reaction among those wishing to federalize the regions of Ukraine. Konstantin Zatulin, First Deputy Chairman of the Russian State Duma Committee on CIS Affairs, Eurasian Integration and Relations with Compatriots, stated this in an interview with Ukraina.Ru, PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Ukraine throughout its history has been pregnant with decay, half-life. Why don't they want...

The United States will insist on prolonging the Ukrainian law on the special status of Donbass. Special Representative of the State Department for Ukraine Kurt Volker stated this in an interview with Voice of America, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “I understand the disappointment of Ukrainian legislators and the Ukrainian public that they took measures such as the law on special status, the amnesty law, and Russia did absolutely nothing...

Ukraine should behave towards Donbass the same way Russia once behaved towards Chechnya. Russian President Vladimir Putin stated this in an interview with the Austrian television and radio company ORF, the text of which is published by the official website of the Kremlin. “The radical elements of Al Qaeda wanted to tear this territory away from the Russian Federation and form a caliphate from the Black Sea to the Caspian...

The controversial Verkhovna Rada deputy, former militant of the so-called ATO Nadezhda Savchenko is against granting special status to Donbass, but wants all regions of Ukraine to receive such powers. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte. She stated this on the NewsOne TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “We already had a special status for Crimea - this is...

The next meeting between Russian Presidential Adviser Vladislav Surkov and US State Department Special Representative for Ukraine Kurt Volcker will take place in January. Volker himself stated this today in an interview with Ekho Moskvy radio. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte “Our November meeting was a disappointment that we did not make progress on this issue. But we hope...

Granting autonomy to Donbass is the only chance for the Kyiv authorities to preserve the region in a single political space with Ukraine. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte. Former Verkhovna Rada deputy Anna German said this on the NewsOne TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to her, broad powers will need to be granted to other regions as well.…

The Ukrainian parliament, having adopted a law on the so-called integration of Donbass, recognized the illegality of the use of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the civil conflict that has lasted since 2014, writes Vladimir Kornilov, director of the Center for Eurasian Studies, in Izvestia. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte The author recalls that the presidential representative in parliament Irina Lutsenko declared the Minsk agreements “shameful”, and a number of deputies…

The laws on Donbass adopted in the Ukrainian parliament on the initiative of the president may become for Poroshenko what Yanukovych’s refusal to sign an association agreement with the EU once became for Yanukovych. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte. The head of the Perspective information and analytical center Pavel said this at a press conference in Kyiv, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports...

Poroshenko admitted that the laws adopted by the Verkhovna Rada on Donbass are just a fiction, and Ukraine is not going to implement them. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte. Secretary of the Parliamentary Committee on Security and Defense, Verkhovna Rada deputy from the BPP Ivan Vinnik said this on air on the ZIK TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to him...

The locomotives of the European Union - France and Germany - dream of lifting sanctions from Russia and resuming normal relations, and therefore hoped that Ukraine would not extend the law on the special status of Donbass. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte. This was stated on the ZIK TV channel by the secretary of the parliamentary committee on security and defense, deputy...