*Lustration – government policy that seeks to cleanse a new regime from corrupt remnants of the past. The Lustration Law was originally appealed in the Constitutional Court of Ukraine in 2015. Now, five years later, the court has...
Lustration literally means “clarification through light and fire.” Coined by the Czech Republic in 1990, this term has been used for holding officials accountable for human rights violations. As a result, certain persons may...
When Viktor Yushchenko took the presidential oath of office on Maidan in January 2005, he seemed invincible. His main rival Viktor Yanukovych had been beaten, and all the elites instantly aligned themselves with the new president. The...
Communists and “regionals” received blows right in the session hall Kyiv, July 22nd (New Region, Anna Sergeyeva) – On Tuesday, a fight broke out during the morning session of the Verkhovna Rada. As “New Region” correspondent...
It seems everyone has already noted how firm and fanatical people in Donbas are in their political convictions. Politics in their consciousness has long acquired the characteristics of religion which they ardently protect from any heresy....
Transparency International has calculated who out of the officials in 2013 spent more than they have earned. We have outlined the most generous ones. Three are still working. On June 6th on the website of the Ministry of Justice, a bill...
Dnipropetrovsk – Local Auto-Maidaners started accommodating refugees from Donbas to Oleg Tsariov’s house near Dnipropetrovsk. The initiators of this action claim this is temporary, the mansion, as before, is still the property of the...
A group of MPs from the Party of Regions announced their withdrawal from their former party and faction in parliament and the formation of a new group in opposition to the current government, reports Espreso.TV on April 8. Former Party of...
The local political and business elite in the east of Ukraine have made a stand against the Kyiv government, reports TSN. According to the citizens of Donetsk and Luhansk, Euromaidan activists and those who are for Ukrainian unity are the...
Espreso TV has learned from sources inside the Party of Regions that party members have reached an informal decision to support the Right Sector as an organization that can help discredit the new government and be used in publicity...
On 23 June 1978, a Soviet police officer came to the house of a Crimean Tatar Musa Mamut to escort him to a meeting with a prosecutor. Mamut was legally not allowed to live in Crimea, due to his nationality. In fact, he had just returned...
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