Yaroslav Yurchyshyn

Ukraine’s parliament to restart live airing in September

Live broadcasts of parliamentary sessions will be restored starting in September, Ruslan Stefanchuk, Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada, has said, MP Oleksii Honcharenko reported on Telegram on Aug. 19.

19 August 2025, 03:31 PM

MP says case targeting Zelenskyy ally was ‘last straw’ before NABU and SAPO were stripped of independence

A corruption probe involving a close ally of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was the “last straw” that prompted the president’s office to push for new limits on the independence of the country’s main anti-corruption bodies, the head of Ukraine’s parliamentary committee on freedom of speech, Yaroslav Yurchyshyn, said in an interview with Radio NV on July 23.

24 July 2025, 01:43 AM

Spring 2025 Presidential elections not possible

Several informed representatives of Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada told NV there are multiple reasons why a national election likely won’t be held in spring 2025, with two influential sources in the Servant of the People faction also denying that presidential elections could happen on May 25, according to The Economist on Nov. 13.

13 November 2024, 06:19 PM

Yaroslav Yurchyshyn