I find it humorous that Ukraine's Parliament has a poll on their front page. The poll started on April 22, 2004 and has never closed. The poll question is, "Are Verkhovna Rada's activities open (transparent)?"

87% of the votes are "no" or "not at all". I translated the Ukrainian to English with the help of the Babylon application.

Can you image the US Congress web site with a poll like this? I need to write my Senator and see if we can't get polls put up. ;)

I was poking around Parliament's web site to see if there was any news on bill 2562. This bill will make "foreigner" single adoption illegal and restrict adoptive parent's ages.

I had to stop translating the May 30 session notes because I was getting a headache. I felt like the sentences wouldn't end. And once I had an English translation, I still needed the "political speak" translated into English. Check out the example below. I can almost understand it.

Into razi acceptance by the top administrative organ of the corresponding political party (of electoral bloc political party) decision about the pre-term termination of the authorities of the people's deputy of Ukraine Central electoral commission is determined about acknowledgment following behind the sequence of aspirant after the Ukraine people's deputies in the electoral list of the corresponding political party (of electoral bloc political party) in accord with part first article 101 Law of Ukraine "About the choices of the people's deputies of Ukraine".

From: 31.05.2007 00: 19 Plenary sessions 30 mays 2007 year (Information department)

Luckily a FRUA poster did manage to get through the notes. 53 laws were passed from April 3 to May 28. Parliament wasn't suppose to be in session but deputies opposing the President continued to meet. This includes bill 2562 .

The plan was for all of Rada's 450 deputies to vote on these bills. But most of Tuesday and Wednesday was spent disagreeing on changes for election laws and the central electoral commission.

Wednesday wasn't a peaceful day for Parliament. A bomb threat forced everyone to briefly leave the building. It was a stormy session where deputies felt free to insult each other. Eventually the 81 Our Ukraine deputies just walked out of Parliament.

President Yushchenko now has to decide his next step. He had limited Parliament's officially approved session to May 29th and May 30th. And the deputies accomplished nothing (other then calling each other names and getting angry).

My fingers continue to be crossed. Hopefully Parliament gets their act together. They will finance the Parliamentary elections on September 30. And they will just forget about 2562 .