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Livadia, June 3 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Verkhovna Rada Chairman Volodymyr Lytvyn has proposed creating a central state register of hate crimes, which will be accessible to everybody.

"First and foremost, we need to create a central state register of hate crimes," he said at a meeting of the Council of Regions in Livadia, Crima, on Friday.

Lytvyn also noted that first steps on the creation of such a register had already been taken by the Security Service of Ukraine and the Interior Ministry.

He said that "this register should be public, so that there are grounds to make assessments, including during political campaigns, so that it is an institution of civil society, and so that the public can offer their comments."