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The appeal against the ban on a picket outside the President’s reportedly sumptuous residence Mezhyhirya on 6 June 2011 was rejected without the claimant being informed of the hearing at all. The peaceful picket had been planned to remind the President of his promise made a year earlier to show the residence to journalists 
Historians are concerned at news of an agreement which binds post-Soviet countries to agree policy on declassifying Soviet archives, and fear that some material could be classified again. 
The Constitutional Court has refused to provide details about the number of judges who voted to reinstate the 1996 Constitution, as well as the number who voted for Anatoly Holovin as CCU President 
The Public Council attached to the State Committee on Television and Radio Broadcasting is categorically opposed to provisions in a draft law which would provide the Security Service with additional power of control over access to official information and documents containing such information 
Marina Nikolayeva decided to check out how the Public Information Act and its norm on income declarations work by examining those of Kharkiv Governor Dobkin and Mayor Kernes. The comparison between their statements and reality makes shocking reading 
Since 9 May 2011 when the Law on Access to Public Information came into force, administrative courts have considered 24 civil claims over failure to provide response. In 20 of them the courts found in favour of the claimant 
As feared, parliament has undermined a vital mechanism for ensuring public monitoring of court rulings by allowing judges to themselves determine which court rulings will be entered in the “Single Register of Court Rulings” 
The first is over rulings of domestic courts in cases of the Media Law Institute against the Verkhovna Rada over the latter’s failure to answer information requests. The second is over court rulings in the case against the Constitutional Court regarding refusals to provide information 
The Verkhovna Rada on 6 October passed at its first reading a draft law which would determine which court rulings are entered in the Register of Court Rulings. Responsibility for the selection would be vested with the Council of Judges 
If the Law on Access to Public Information is just a decoration designed to hoodwink the public and the international community then it is a complete waste of time. If interested parties have to resort to the courts to gain the information the law entitles them to then it is seriously flawed 
The Mayor of Zaporizhya, Oleksandr Sin has prohibited journalists from attending the weekly meetings with the heads of departments within the City Council. He claims that officials are scared to tell the truth so as not to attract journalists’ attention 
The Office of the Verkhovna Rada has refused to provide information about the income of all National Deputies, citing the Law on Personal Data Protection as their grounds. More than two months after the Public Information Act came into effect, public officials are in no hurry to disclose information 
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