On December 11 Ukrainian society was hit by the news of Roman Nasirov, ex-head of the State Fiscal Service of Ukraine, being reinstated at his position. Nasirov is suspected in causing UAH 2 bn ($73.7mn) of damage to the state. He is a...
The launch of the High Anti-Corruption Court (HACC) is a huge step forward for Ukraine. The country’s civil society has been fighting for this for more than two years. First and foremost, the creation of the court offers the...
The fight for its creation was not easy. President Petro Poroshenko, the author of Ukraine’s judicial reform, resisted the idea till the very last moment. The pressure of society and Ukraine’s western partners made him change his mind....
According to the last poll by the Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Foundation, Ukrainians consider corruption the number one problem obstructing the country’s development, even more than the war in Donbas. Corruption scares away...
The slow pace of reforms and lack of fruitful results in fighting corruption in Ukraine often overshadow all the positive steps of the last 4 years. For instance, two institutions which were created from scratch to tackle top corruption...
However, if NABU is praised nearly unconditionally, SAPO is always spoken about with additional remarks – “not totally independent,” “not totally effective.” In the last months, the difference between the two became even more...
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 how the court...
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...
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 New York Times article by Andrew Kramer published on 2 May 2018 has made ripples worldwide. With the title alleging that “Ukraine, seeking US missiles, halted cooperation with Mueller investigation,” but the content stating that...
Is punishment inevitable? Commenting on the trial of Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann (one of the organizers of the Holocaust, tried and executed in Israel in 1962), the famous philosopher Karl Jaspers wrote: “Something other than law is at...
