Did Ukraine's parliament drop e-declarations for activists? Events of 4 April 2018
A look back at the Ukraine–Turkey aviation agreement signed on 4 April 2018 and the parliamentary vote a day earlier on anti-corruption disclosure.
What happened in Ukrainian public life around 4 April 2018? On that date, Ukraine and Turkey signed an agreement aimed at improving aviation co-operation.
The agreement followed a notable parliamentary decision on 3 April 2018. The Verkhovna Rada rejected two bills that would have scrapped electronic asset declarations for civic activists: presidential bill No. 6674 and a bill from deputies, No. 6271. With both rejected, the e-declaration requirement for activists was not repealed by these proposals.
The vote concerned the e-declaration system, which required disclosure of assets, and the bills sought to remove that obligation for people working in civil society.
Regional context
Elsewhere in the region on 3 April 2018, Russian MPs called for sanctions against Latvia. They were responding to plans to make Latvian mandatory for all students in the country's secondary schools. As reported at the time, about a quarter of Latvia's population is ethnically Russian.
