Iryna Nozdrovska, a lawyer who had on 27 December 2017 managed to prevent the release of the killer of her sister from imprisonment, was found dead on 1 January near Kyiv after being missing for two days. After several days of search...
Some observers were convinced that this was a purposeful action planned at the highest level to suppress all political opponents; others argued that the former leaders of Ukraine were simply puppets coordinated by Moscow. For many people,...
It’s an open secret that an effective and unbiased judicial system is a must for attracting investments into a country, No one would invest knowing that his property may be easily taken away. The post-Maidan authorities in Ukraine...
Reform of judiciary has been one of the most demanded changes since Ukraine’s very independence in 1991. It has also potentially been among the hardest ones. Ukraine inherited a Soviet judicial system which could hardly be called...
In late March 2016, detectives from the National Anti-Corruption Bureau came to search the house of a city district judge in Odesa. The procedure was approved by a court decree and conducted as part of a pretrial investigation in...
One of the Dnipropetrovsk-based UKROP party leaders Henadiy Korban has found himself under the spotlight on the morning of 31 October. He was detained by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) and party offices and his affiliated volunteer...
Terror as a Method of Warfare In the spring of 2014, armed thugs started to kidnap and torture people to establish control over the region. Ordinary people from Donbas were kidnapped and tortured. An active, pro-Ukrainian minority had to...
Two years after the beginning of the Euromaidan revolution, and two weeks after a leading group of Ukrainian intellectuals released their take on a new social contract for Ukraine, the Kyiv Post brought together Ukrainian civic and...
Naming suspects as “killers” in media, which took place in the Buzina case, can provoke a very dangerous practice of substituting legal mechanisms (an investigation and a trial in court) with so-called media justice, when the image of...
The Russian interior ministry wants to revive the troikas Stalin used to conduct the purges in the 1930s nominally to deal with relatively minor crimes but which have the potential for abuse and the intimidation of citizens who are guilty...
On 11 October, a three-day meeting of the Synod, or church council, of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, finished in Istanbul. It gave further confirmation that Ukraine is on the path to receiving church independence from Moscow – and healing...
