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Yaroslav Yurchyshyn, an MP from the liberal opposition Holos (Voice) party, now heads the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine’s parliament) Committee on Freedom of Speech and Information, replacing of Nestor Shufrych, an MP from the outlawed Opposition Platform – Fore Life (OPFL) pro-Russian party. Shufrych has recently been charged with treason.

Ilya Kiva, a Member of Parliament until the crackdown on opposition parties, was shot in the head in an assassination claimed by Kyiv.

Ukrainian MP and First Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament) Finance Committee, Yaroslav Zheleznyak, explained in an interview with NV Radio on Dec. 4 what he thinks about business trips abroad of lawmakers and representatives of the President’s Office during wartime.

Ukraine's military intelligence spokesperson called Kyva "one of the biggest scumbags, traitors and collaborators" and said his death was "justice."

Ilya Kiva, a Member of Parliament until the crackdown on opposition parties, was shot in the head in an assassination claimed by Kyiv.

The Prosecutor General's Office is conducting an internal investigation following the publication of a video that appears to show gifts being dropped off at the office on Dec. 1, the Prosecutor General's Office said on Dec. 5.

No clear postwar situation is likely to emerge in Ukraine. The country’s EU partners will have to help it reform during wartime.

Of the 50 signatories to an initiative to block Kyiv’s ban on the Moscow-linked church, 20 are members of the president’s own party, many of whom occupy top positions in parliamentary committees.

Tuesday is the 10th anniversary of the start of the Euromaidan (lit. ‘Euro Square’) protests in Kiev. In February 2014, the unrest culminated in the ouster of Ukraine’s government, and its replacement with a fanatically pro-US, pro-EU, pro-NATO regime hostile to Russia. What did protesters want? And what did ordinary Ukrainians ultimately get?

Many thousands have died needlessly in the unnecessary, unwinnable, and increasingly unaffordable war in Ukraine. The financial assistance and energy subsidies the war has cost Europe and the United S...