On April 9, 2015, The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (Ukrainian Parliament) approved a government bill No. 2540 opening up access to the archives of repressive bodies of the Soviet Union totalitarian regime of 1917-1991.
The archives of all repressive organizations such as KGB, All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage, the Ukrainian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution, speculation, sabotage and malfeasance, the Supreme Court, the Supreme Court of Cassation, and the Supreme Cassation Tribunal and other that were Ukraine in 1917-1991 will be transferred to Institute of National Remembrance and declassified:
“The State shall guarantee the right of everyone to have access to archival information repressive bodies” – says the document.
See also: How the KGB archives will be opened and information declassified
