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The US Department of State, partnered with the US-Ukraine Foundation, which was established and active since 1991, has, according to its own admission, been influencing the Rada since at least 1994.

My post #48 has a link to an article published by the US-Ukraine Foundation in 2001; the article celebrates the anniversary of 10 years of activism and influence in Ukraine.

Of course, the claim will be made that the "help" was purely "technical", but with the scope and duration of the project, the opportunity and motivation for undue influence renders the suggestion of "technical-only help" supremely doubtful.

Here's an excerpt with the Rada part of the article, though notably the article also proudly spoke of working in the areas of law and education as well:

Over the past 10 years, the U.S.-Ukraine Foundation has developed significant expertise in a number of public policy areas. For example, in 1994 the Parliamentary Development Project (PDP) was established after Ivan Pliushch, then chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, asked the USUF to provide technical assistance and support for the Task Force on Parliamentary Reform. His request eventually led to the founding of PDP, a USAID-funded cooperative effort of the U.S.-Ukraine Foundation and Indiana University's School of Public and Environmental Affairs.

During the project, USUF project staff worked side by side with deputies and provided them with the necessary information and analysis they needed to make appropriate changes in the Verkhovna Rada's procedures and structures.

PDP has translated into Ukrainian over 200 documents of comparative information or analytical pieces for the Verkhovna Rada's reference. PDP also disseminated valuable information to policy-makers in all branches of the Ukrainian government, academia, and the mass media.

Here is an example of how Russia assists the Ukraine with its development of democratic and fair government:

SBU releases Russian military chatter over killing of Horlivka lawmaker (VIDEO)

2:30 p.m. – Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) has released a YouTube video it says implicates high-ranking Russian Military Intelligence officers in the April 17 abduction and subsequent killing of Horlivka City Councilman Volodymyr Rybak.

Rybak that day tried raising the Ukrainian national flag atop the local legislature building. His dead body was found in a river near Sloviansk – 65 kilometers from Horlivka – on April 19, along with an unidentified corpse. An Interior Ministry criminal investigator said his body had signs of torture and his belly was ripped open.

The first part of the video allegedly shows a recording of Russian Military Intelligence Lieutenant Colonel Igor Bezlier ordering a subordinate to abduct Rybak, tie his hands and blindfold him while driving him away to a remote place so that he could rendezvous with the captors.

In the second part of the recording, Russian Military Intelligence Colonel Igor Strelkov – who the SBU says is coordinating the Kremlin-backed separatist movement in eastern Ukraine – calls Vyacheslav Ponomaryov, the self-proclaimed mayor of Sloviansk, “to come and pick up (Rybak’s) body because it is starting to stink.”

In response, Ponomaryov complies, and says he will come to take and “bury the punk.” – Mark Rachkevych

Senior security official: Anti-terror operation suspended as Russian troops amass on border (LIVE UPDATES, VIDEO)
Print version April 24, 2014, 4:18 p.m
Kyiv Post
http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/5-dead-one-wounded-as-anti-terror-operation-continues-in-sloviansk-live-updates-344902.html

Your war propaganda on behalf of these heinous crimes against humanity is noted and deplored.