Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Volodymyr Groysman on Tuesday opened the third session of Parliament, where the MPs imply approval of a General presidential draft changes to the Constitution on decentralization.
The work of people's deputies will take place on the background of the forthcoming electoral campaign for local elections on October 25. The Ukrainian authorities Also expect personnel shifts in the government, who have the opportunity to finally destroy the already shaky coalition, reports RIA " Novosti ". The deputies in the process of a new session is Also expected to consider a number of major economic laws. The government of Ukraine a tentative plan September 1 to submit to Parliament a draft law on the restructuring of public debt of the country and to approve amendments to the state budget for 2015, envisaging the increase of salaries and pensions.
Ukraine's Parliament observed a minute of silence in memory of soldiers who died on Monday during clashes near the Verkhovna Rada." Call on all law-enforcement system to detect each sacrament. Everyone who has anything to do with this terrorist act, must bear the greatest responsibility, and political for what turned absolutely peaceful gathering in the death and bloodshed", - has declared the speaker of the Rada Volodymyr Groysman, opening a new session of Parliament. The head of the Parliament Also tried to convince all people's deputies to adopt a joint message regarding the evaluation of the events of yesterday." I urge all people's deputies, all factions of the Ukrainian Parliament to adopt a joint message regarding yesterday's events and to take upon his own shoulders the obligation to adhere to the norms of parliamentary democracy and regulation ", ? Groysman added. However, the situation near the building of Verkhovna Rada calm, nobody holds rallies. The Parliament building was heavily guarded by riot police. The situation is calm. Remember, the first day of the week the Verkhovna Rada with the ugliness adopted in the first reading the presidential draft amendments to the Constitution. While at the building Happy riots occurred. Protesters twice attempted to storm Parliament. Similarly, in the security forces was thrown grenade combat. According to the summary data, in the end, the riots cost the lives of two soldiers of the National guard of Ukraine, 130 people have been injured, six of them are in a state of crisis. It was stated that 1st national guardsman, whose death was announced, was forcibly deprived of his life by a bullet, although a number of Ukrainian activists argued that it was touched by a shell. The head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko expressed with reference to the people in connection with the vote in Parliament on changes to the Constitution of the country, provoked numerous riots outside Parliament. Poroshenko said that the events that occurred outside Parliament, "the stab in the back" and " anti-Ukrainian campaign ". The head of the international Department of the state Duma Alexei Pushkov after the events of the Verkhovna Rada called Ukraine " the eternal country of the Maidan ".

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