The Venice Commission of the Council of Europe has approved the interim report of the Ukrainian law on lustration at the meeting on the last working day of the week, said Last news employee of the office of the Council of Europe. The document notes that the law has some significant shortcomings." The head of the Department did not specify what kind of disadvantages.

according to the Last news , during the meeting, the draft opinion of the Council lustrationes the law was changed greatly.

Returning to the vision of the Commission, an employee of the office of the Council of Europe said that it is the Commission welcomes the intention of the Ukrainian authorities to work together with the Venice Commission on improvement of the legislation and bring it into congruence with the Constitution of Ukraine and European standards ".

The Parliament of Ukraine with the 3rd attempt blesed on September 16, the lustration law, which is subject to one million various bureaucrats, public servants, employees of the police organization, and among them the entire Cabinet of Ministers. As warned by the Prosecutor General of Ukraine Vitaliy Yarema, the law is not in conformity with the Constitution and the requirements of international law.

in the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation considered that the law on lustration in fact legitimize political persecution in Ukraine.

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