On 23 January, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced personnel changes in ministries, government structures, and the judicial system. The day after the statement, Presidential Office said it had accepted the resignation of...
European Pravda reports that the EU welcomes the fact that the Ukrainian government is taking corruption allegations against high-ranking officials seriously. “We note that the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) is...
Vasyl Lozynskyi, Deputy Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine and former acting Minister of Development of Communities and Territories of Ukraine, who was detained on 21 January 2023 by Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau...
In Ukraine, reforms initiated in 2014 reduced the space for oligarchic schemes while strengthening state institutions. In 2016, the nationalization of the state’s largest bank, Privatbank, from the country’s notorious oligarch...
The High Anti-Corruption Court was established on 11 April 2019. It was created specifically to consider cases of top officials suspected of corruption after ordinary courts had sabotaged such cases on numerous occasions. The court...
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...
On 17 September, Ukrainian MPs voted for a decision that puts international financial support for the country under risk and threatens the independence of a key anti-corruption institution. In particular, the Parliament voted for the...
The Polish prosecutor’s office said the detention was the result of an international investigation conducted by a joint group of prosecutors from Poland and Ukraine, the Central Anti-Corruption Bureau of Poland and the National...
One of the Swedish flat-pack furniture giant IKEA’s bestsellers, the iconic folding, slatted Terje chair, is made from illegally logged timber from the Ukrainian Carpathian mountains, the British NGO Earthsight has revealed in a...
Swapping ministers amid quarantine In the course of the ongoing quarantine, Ukraine has managed to replace health ministers two times. Mykola Stepanov, the current one, took the office on 30 March 2020 after Illia Yemets. Yemets, in turn,...
First stereotype: Ukrainians are very poor Some Europeans viewed Ukraine as extremely poor. Many Ukrainian refugees were surprised to learn that. “They perceived us almost like we are cave people who do not know and have not seen...
