Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you very much for the question. I believe this is a task for the whole Ukrainian parliament to be responsible for. We do have a human rights committee in Ukraine, but there is another problem. The people you mentioned actually have no status and are hostages. They are in

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman and honourable members.

Foreign Affairs committee  It is already used. If you remember the suggestion from Kissinger, he planned to bargain Crimea for Donbass. It was quite recently, already with new administration. It was not Kissinger's idea. This idea came from Surkov, who met Kissinger and actually gave him this note—I know t

Foreign Affairs committee  That would be a question for the government. As we represent a small opposition party, it's very difficult, again, to be accurate in the response. Frankly, I don't have exhaustive information about government activity in this area. I can only tell you that, in fact, the whole in

Foreign Affairs committee  It's a very good question. Thank you very much. It is true, sir, that from the Russian perspective, those two territories have different status. Russia needs Crimea. It needs Crimea for its strategic military purposes. That's why Russia occupied and illegally annexed this territ

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank God we are not alone.

Foreign Affairs committee  There are two issues. First, we do have advisers. They do provide good advice, but they advise on the strategy for privatization. However, before going to a particular implementation of privatization, you have to have framework that ensures transparent privatization. Unfortunatel

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you very much. We have the same concerns, and we are ready to face them and to fix them. We believe it is our task as a parliament to do so. I understand the nature of the concerns. Unfortunately, Ukrainian parliaments still lack appropriate parliamentary oversight over d

Foreign Affairs committee  I said, “inventory and monitoring”, meaning how the foreign defence assistance is used in Ukraine. I believe if you have this, we will be able to ensure it. I know the U.S. Government, for example, is now undertaking an audit of what has so far been provided to Ukraine, and they

Foreign Affairs committee  You probably know pretty well that the policy towards Ukraine as well as towards Russia is not settled yet. To a big extent, it's on the level of assumptions based on the public speeches of the president, the vice-president, the secretary of state, and so on. Our task was to com

Foreign Affairs committee  By the way, speaking of the OSCE, on the one hand, we are trying to encourage the OSCE to be there and to monitor human rights, but on the other hand, in the recent election monitoring report from the Russian elections done by the OSCE/ODIHR, they even don't mention the Russian o

Foreign Affairs committee  Ukraine has fantastic civil society that is maturing a lot now. I think you know that in the most critical period of time after the revolution of dignity, civil society substituted a lot of governmental institutions. They actually were doing the work that government or parliament

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes. As you were just mentioning, just yesterday there was the case of one more Crimean Tatar who has been arrested and sentenced in Kuban, actually. The situation is drastic. You understand that this is the consequence of what Russia has aimed to do. Of course, the human rights

Foreign Affairs committee  I have one thing to add. We also have an offer from the other party to suggest how the privatization approach should be changed. The biggest problem, and why it has not been privatized, is that first, we don't have proper management of state enterprises. Second, there are no tra

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you very much, Madame. I will leave the anti-corruption court for Iegor to respond to. With regard to reforms and everything that relates to the supposed fatigue, sorry, but it's Russian propaganda. When we hear, for example, about Ukraine's fatigue, I'm always asking the