Ukraine has issued the first sentence for war crimes committed during the war in Donbas. Viktor Mykhed, a Ukrainian citizen who joined the so-called “Donetsk People’s Republic” (“DNR”) in 2014, was sentenced...
From Euromaidan in the winter of 2014 to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). This is the path activists and their families took to find justice and reconstruct the events of the protests termed the Revolution of Dignity. On 21...
Ukraine is currently playing three chess games on three different chess boards: one related to economy, the second to the war, and the third to justice. These are the key topics on Ukraine’s agenda. The games are being played by...
Euromaidan activist Ivan Hranatkin responded by publishing several photos of Pylypenko during the Maidan clashes, and asked him a pointed question: “So, Colonel, are you sleeping like a baby, you bastard?!” It should also be...
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...
In 2014, after the first Russian invasion of Ukrainian territory in the Donbas, soldiers who had lost limbs in battle were seen for the first time in public as they returned home. Since the full-on invasion by Russia in February 2022, the...
