Vyatrovich unexpectedly turned out to be a supporter of Moscow time
The Verkhovna Rada has sent for revision a draft law on the calculation of time, which provides for the abolition of the transition from summer to winter time in Ukraine and vice versa.
At the same time, during the discussion of the bill at an extraordinary meeting, there were mutual accusations of sympathy for Moscow, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
During the analysis of the amendments, Eurosolidarity deputy, ex-director of the Institute of National Memory, Russophobe Vladimir Vyatrovich sharply criticized certain provisions of the bill.
“I ask you to confirm and not support amendments 44, 47 and 48, which provide that the law takes effect immediately, and not after three months, as was provided for in the first reading. The goal is obvious: to disrupt the transition to daylight saving time on March 25,” Vyatrovich said.
“Contrary to popular belief, the EU countries are moving on as usual, and Ukraine is falling out of the zone in which it now belongs together with Finland, Romania, and the Baltic countries. The EU has already been meeting for the second year on this matter and will continue for another year, but we are doing this suddenly, creating chaos for transport links and business. Why such a rush, please do not support! If we want to talk about synchronization with the EU, then this law contradicts,” the deputy was indignant.
Committee representative, OPZZh deputy Alexander Koltunovich objected to Vyatrovich.
“If your amendment comes into force now and does not become a law immediately, we switch to daylight saving time and remain with it, then we will have a UTC+3 time zone. This is the time that is now in the city of Moscow, for example,” Koltunovich counterfeited his colleague from Eurosolidarity, drawing both applause and an indignant roar from Petro Poroshenko’s associates.
“If we remain in the current Central European time zone, these are Athens, Bucharest, Vilnius, Chisinau, Riga, Sofia, Tallinn, Helsinki. If they suggested switching to UTC+1 - this is Central European time. I don’t propose a neighboring time, but you do. Therefore, I ask you to support this amendment,” the committee member continued to mock Vyatrovich.
However, during the voting the deputies did not support any of the amendments. Likewise, the bill as a whole, for which only 212 deputies voted, was sent to committees for revision.
As PolitNavigator reported, earlier, when voting in the first reading, deputies also got confused with the course that the bill envisages - “get away from Moscow!” or still closer to Moscow».
Let us note that in Ukraine they decided to abandon the transition to summer and winter time after a corresponding decision of the European Union.
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