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...
Since the Euromaidan revolution, Ukraine’s various international partners have been involved in in the process of reforming the country. One of the important formats is the Ukraine Support Group within the Group of Seven (G7),...
In the last week, Ukraine’s legislation obliging anti-corruption activists to submit e-declarations on their assets on par with government officials has come under criticism of both the Venice Commission, an advisory body of the Council...
• Details about the arrest of “Nastya Rybka” from an eyewitness • “Locals acknowledged that they received instructions from Russia to detain us by any reason” – Alex Lesley In the past few days, American media has...
The European Union officially criticized Ukraine’s Presidential Administration over submitted the bill on the High Anti-Corruption Court submitted by President Poroshenko. The speaker of the EU voiced its position in a letter on the...
Satu Kahkonen, the World Bank director responsible for the Ukrainian direction, has sent a letter to the Ukrainian Parliament and President’s Administration, in which she warned about the inadmissability of adopting President...
During the last week of 2017, the text of the bill on the creation of the High Anti-Corruption Court, the institution which can push forward Ukraine’s fight against corruption, appeared on the site of Verkhovna Rada (Parliament)....
Chronology of the conflict November 29: The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) detains seven employees of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) who were working undercover. One of them allegedly tried to bribe Deputy Head of...
On December 9, international anti-corruption day, activists in Ukraine held a protest drive-in to the house of Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko. The 300-strong car protest was organized by Automaidan and the Corruption Prevention Center...
Free independent media is a necessary condition for democracy to function in any country. Censorship, on the other hand, is rampant in all its forms in dictatorships. These definitions may be relevant in a black and white world; in...
