The main news in Ukraine on Friday, 28 August was the decision of the Constitutional Court, which declared unconstitutional the Presidential Decree appointing Artem Sytnyk director of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine. According to…
Corruption Virus in Ukraine
August 25, 2020
Today, the activities of state institutions in Ukraine, as in many other countries with less developed management systems, are permeated with corruption schemes. Citizens see corruption, especially at the highest level, as one of the…
Ukraine Tops Public Procurement Transparency Rating
August 17, 2020
The Ukrainian public procurement system scored 97.05 points out of 100 points possible and took first place in the Transparent Public Procurement Rating. The second and third places were taken by Moldova (92.81) and Colombia…
Ukraine has made some good anti-corruption reforms under the Presidency of Petro Poroshenko, but now some of them seem to be under threat, says John Lough, Associate fellow of the Russia & Eurasia Programme at…
Today, many various state-authorised bodies are involved in combating corruption in Ukraine. Among them are the National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine, the State Bureau of Investigation, the…
The case of the former Ukravtodor’s Head Slawomir Nowak, detained by a Polish court last week, was added with new details, Ukrainian News agency reports. To recap, the detention took place as part of an…
The illegal detention of Georgian Legion fighters by the KORD special forces, who beat the volunteers and damaged their car, took place on 2 October, in the Akademgorodok district in Kyiv. “Our boys were stopped,…
Gambling Business in Ukraine Comes out: What's Next?
July 24, 2020
On 14 July, the Ukrainian’s Parliament (Verkhovna Rada) issued the Law “On State Regulation of Activities Concerning the Organisation and Conducting of Gambling,” which authorises gambling in the state. Legalization of gambling has so far…
What can Chornobyl teach us about fighting COVID-19?
July 23, 2020
Is the current coronavirus crisis somehow similar to the aftermath of the Chornobyl nuclear disaster in 1986? Can we use lessons from Chornobyl to face the new challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic? What should we…
Quarantine strengthens the authorities’ power and weakens the opposition. The former gains more power and becomes a major player in overcoming the pandemic; the latter is marginalised, as any criticism from its part may be…
A loud corruption scandal has exploded in Ukraine, involving a group of judges from one of the country’s main courts, the Kyiv District Administrative Court. According to the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine, several main…
The cafe at the square of ancient kings in Rome has an unstoppable flow of people who are casually chatting with vendors and strangers. Warm colors, loud voices, traditional cannoli and fresh coffee – the…
The announcement of the resignation of the Governor of the National Bank of Ukraine, Yakiv Smolii, against the backdrop of alleged political pressure sends a worrying signal, said Peter Stano, the Spokesperson of the European…
Integration in the single economic space with EU is necessary for a more ambitious Eastern Partnership
June 30, 2020
The European Parliament proposal to create a common economic space between the EU and the Eastern Partnership is needed to keep the motivation and incentives for reforms in Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova. This is an opinion of…
The Security Service of Ukraine together with NABU under the procedural guidance of the SAP detained the head of one of the regional state administrations and an official of the same regional state administration for…
Cashless Economy vs. Shadow Economy in Ukraine
June 20, 2020
Some of the often discussed benefits of digital payments are decreased time of the transaction, cost reduction on operating expenses, money processing, and money circulation maintenance, protection against robbery and counterfeiting, and increased transparency of…
The National Anti-Corruption Bureau and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office detained three people in a $ 6 million bribe case offered to NABU and SAP officials by proxies of ex-Minister of Ecology Mykola Zlochevsky, the…
This week, Ukraine did not often appear on the pages of European media. Ukraine was mostly mentioned in the context of the possible additional US sanctions over the construction of the Nord Stream 2 or…
Assessing EU’s transformative power in Ukraine: Six years of anti-corruption conditionality
May 12, 2020
Turbulent developments following the Euromaidan Revolution have made the EU an influential reform actor in Ukraine. All the biggest breakthroughs happening over the past six years in a priority reform area, the fight against corruption,…
President Zelensky’s unlimited power
March 23, 2020
There are two possible factors behind the change in the Ukrainian government: the poor state of the Ukrainian economy and the fall of President Volodymyr Zelensky’s approval rating.
