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...
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...
In 2015, as part of a strategy to tackle corruption and modernize Ukraine after the Euromaidan Revolution, two institutions were created from scratch — the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and the Specialized...
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...
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...
