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Corruption is a significant issue in Ukrainian society [1] [2] going back to the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. [3] After declaring independence from the Soviet Union, Ukraine faced a series of politicians from different sides of the political spectrum, as well as criminal bosses and oligarchs, who used the corruption of police, political parties, and industry to gain power. [4]
The 27 October ruling of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine ruled invalidated much of Ukraine's 2014 anti-corruption reform as unconstitutional. [1] Following the decision, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned that if parliament did not restore these anti-corruption laws, foreign aid, loans and a visa-free travel to the European Union were at risk.
ANALYSIS: The Ukrainian president needs to keep both the support of his people and Western allies – especially as his country will need hundreds of millions of pounds in aid to rebuild once the ...
Open Access – a movie on corruption in modern Ukraine, including the episode where the President of Ukraine refuses any explanations about Mezhyhirya. Open Access (full video with English subtitles, YouTube) Leshchenko, S. Mezhyhirya: Paradise for Yanukovych (Part I, Part II). "Ukrayinska Pravda", 2010; Mezhyhirya. Day of Journalist (2013 ...
Twenty months into the war, about a fifth of Ukraine’s territory remains under Russian occupation. Tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians have been killed, and Zelensky can feel during his ...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russia of "genocide" as officials from his government present evidence of civilian executions and other atrocities in the city of Bucha.
As of February 2022, Ukraine is not party to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC). [2] In 2014 and 2015, the government of Ukraine made two formal requests for the ICC to investigate any Russian war crimes and crimes against humanity that may have occurred in Ukraine in the 2014 Euromaidan protests and civil unrest, the 2014 annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation ...
Ukraine ticked up in Transparency International's latest Corruption Perceptions Index, ranking 104th out of 180 countries. Public tolerance for graft has also plummeted as Russia's invasion saps ...