Ukraine finds itself between a rock and a hard place after a decision of its Constitutional Court killed the country’s asset declaration system and gutted the National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NAZK), a pillar of its...
Generally, all democracies have the function of a constitutional judiciary, which checks whether the law complies with the constitution or whether government agencies follow their constitutional duties. The function of constitutional...
“Should there be life imprisonment for large-scale corruption?” asked President Zelenskyy in a controversial unofficial poll held on local election day, 25 October. Unsurprisingly, most – 83%, according to preliminary...
In 2016, the judicial reform of then-president Petro Poroshenko saw higher courts being liquidated, among them the old Supreme Court of Ukraine. Instead, a new Supreme Court was created as a single cassation court. For its judges, a...
The question of fighting corruption rose to the top of Ukraine’s agenda after the Euromaidan revolution. Civil society started to search for ways to do this, and its voice was strong. Just after the revolution, politicians who came...
The run-up to holidays in Ukraine is traditionally a time to make important decisions, and this New Year’s Eve is no exception. While all attention is focused on preparations for the holidays, the Presidential Office (PO) published...
There could be another setback in the long-awaited visa-free regime with Europe as 48 deputies of Ukraine have filed a claim to the Constitutional Court. The MPs have asked the court to cancel clauses requiring government officials to...
Putin’s goals and philosophy Sławomir Sierakowski: What is Putin’s ultimate goal in this war? Timothy Snyder: That’s no big secret: to destroy Ukraine as a state and exterminate Ukrainians as a nation. I’d...
