Rada has opened access to the archives of the Communist totalitarian regime "
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted the law " On access to the archives of the repressive organs of the Communist totalitarian regime, 1917-1991 ". "the legislative act provides for the transparency of information in the archives of the repressive organs of the Communist totalitarian regime 1917-1991 years, the development of mechanisms for the implementation of the right of everyone to access this archived information through: the choice of the notion of the repressive organs of the Communist totalitarian regime, 1917-1991, the determination of the access mode of the specified archived information, the establishment of the exclusive list of the grounds of limiting access to such historical information, the establishment of liability for misidentification of this archived information to information with limited access ", - reported in the report on the Internet office of the Verkhovna Rada.
in addition, the law provides for the transfer of documents and other media archive information in a specialized branch state archive of the Ukrainian Institute of national memory archive of the departments of modern police organizations and special services of Ukraine. Before Thursday, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted the law prohibiting public use and propaganda of the Communist and national socialist symbols in the country, as well as recognizing these criminal regimes. In early April the Minister of justice of Ukraine Pavel Petrenko said that the Verkhovna Rada until 9 may adopt laws that " will put an end to the question of the existence of Communist and Nazi ideologies." The day before the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine submitted to the Verkhovna Rada the bill " On access to the archives of the repressive organs of the Communist totalitarian regime, 1917-1991 ". In addition, the Ukrainian Cabinet of Ministers has made the initiative to consider the draft law "on perpetuation of victory over Nazism in the Second world war 1939-1945" and " On the legal status and the memory of participants of fight for independence of Ukraine in the twentieth century ".