The long-standing parliamentary saga regarding the "best composition of the Verkhovna Rada" continues, as journalists are barred from engaging with PEOPLE's deputies. Alexander Korniyenko, former leader of the Servant of the People party and now the first deputy speaker, proposed an "original" solution:
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First, install bulletproof glass in front of the press gallery, and then allow journalists back in.
Let me remind you that during the reign of the Party of Regions and their communist allies in Ukraine, a similar idea was already put forward. Specifically, a group of deputies from Yanukovych's party appealed to the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, Volodymyr Rybak, on November 19, 2013, requesting the installation of glass in the press gallery. In my capacity as the Chairman of the Committee on Freedom of Speech, I suggested, with the opposition's consent, to exchange places with deputies from the Party of Regions and the Communist Party, who were afraid of "blunt heavy objects" falling from the press gallery. After that, the enthusiasm for implementing this original idea from its initiators significantly waned, and it was eventually forgotten.
And then, it disappeared for a while, only to resurface again!
¦The young generation of creative parliamentarians from the Truskavets legal school has decided to realize the initial dream of Yanukovych-Symonenko's deputies.
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It would certainly be funny if it weren't so sad.