It’s 31 May, Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi city, Kyiv Oblast, the eve of International Children’s Day. Some police officers find Friday evening entertainment in shooting bottles on the street. They are drunk. Five-year-old Kyrylo was playing...
Establishing the High Anti-Corruption Court has been one of Ukraine’s major recent successes in the battle against corruption. However, as not all administrative steps have been concluded, for the next three weeks or so the court will...
What happened with Privatbank Ihor Kolomoyskyi, one of the bank’s former owners, used it to pay large credits to his fictitious firms. In that way, he laundered at least US$2bn. The National Bank of Ukraine declared the bank...
Army capable of fighting, well-equipped, skilled, and experienced The corruption in the state defense industry scandalously exposed by the Bihus.info journalist investigation served a devastating blow to all the anti-corruption and...
On 6 March 2019, the High Qualification Commission of Judges (HQCJ) announced the results of the competition to the High Anti-Corruption Court (HAC) and to the Supreme Court (SC). 8 candidates whom civil society organizations had...
The first Reanimation Package of Reforms (RPR) gathering took place in January 2014 amid the Euromaidan protests just after the Ukrainian Parliament had passed the so-called dictatorship laws forbidding street protest, free media,...
The question of fighting corruption rose to the top of Ukraine’s agenda after the Euromaidan revolution. Civil society started to search for ways to do this, and its voice was strong. Just after the revolution, politicians who came to...
On 20 February, family members of those protesters who died during the Revolution of Dignity (the “Heavenly Hundred”) gathered near the offices of the High Qualification Commission of Judges (HQCJ), to demand the dismissal of the...
After Ukraine’s acting Health Minister Uliana Suprun was suspended by a court decision on 5 February, the consequences were manifold. First, the work of the crucial ministry was blocked. Second, the problems in Ukraine’s judiciary were...
The abrupt dismissal of the Ukrainian Public Broadcaster director Zurab Alasania has raised a media fury in Ukraine, with accusations ranging from censorship to state coercion prior to elections. Alasania had many critics, who claim that...
Is the conflict domestic or international? In December 2018, the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in the Ukraine-related part of their “Report on Preliminary Examination Activities” has repeated the...
