At the start of summer 2018, the creation of the Anti-Corruption Court in Ukraine picked up speed. Discussions about the court were ongoing for about two years. On June 7, Ukrainian MPs finally voted for the law defining...
Ukrainian civil society is worried that the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU), the institution created in 2015 to investigate cases regarding top-corruption, could lose its independence. The worries are caused by the two...
On 7 June 2018, the Ukrainian Parliament passed the bill on the creation of the Anti-Corruption Court. 317 out of the needed 226 MPs voted for it. Photo: slovoidilo.ua On 11 June, President Petro Poroshenko signed the law on the...
Before the final voting, Yaroslav Yurchyshyn, Chief Executive of Transparency International Ukraine said that the bill which was considered today is much better than one which was considered at the beginning. In general, all the...
The Verkhovna Rada is expected to make a crucial vote for the bill on the Anti-Corruption Court this week. The question is do important that Prime Minister Volodymyr Hroysman has stated he will resign if the Parliament will not give it a...
In the wake of the political changes in Yerevan, Belarusian analysts are saying that Moscow would not react as calmly to similar changes in Minsk because unlike Armenia, which is constrained by its geography, Minsk could in fact change...
For the last few years, Ukraine has been all over the news due to its two prominent features: a passionate, idealistic desire to defeat corruption, and the corruption’s resistance. The whole world witnessed how during the Euromaidan...
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has become infected. The infection began a long time ago, but old wounds have suddenly reopened and exposed the scale of the problem. An internal investigative group formed ten...
The “Amendments to the Law of Ukraine on Prevention of Corruption” requiring anti-corruption activists to declare their assets on par with state officials, signed on 27 March 2017 by President Petro Poroshenko, raised questions from...
Ukraine’s judicial reform is at another crucial juncture. It had many troubles already: a crucial civil society watchdog withdrew from the process of what should have been the lustration of judges, and clashes erupted over the future...
Four years after the Euromaidan Revolution, many people are wondering what it changed, and what it brought Ukraine. What is your opinion? I look at it from another point of view. It wasn’t Euromaidan that changed something – it was...
