An announcement about the temporary suspension of the release of Ianina Sokolova’s program “How embarrassing you are” on the channel “Ukraine 24” appeared after the broadcasting of the MP Geo Leros on “films of Ermak”. The presenter wrote on Facebook . “I have not been stopped so quickly. Yesterday the third issue of the program “You are not ashamed” was released. In it we

The office of President Volodymyr Zelensky was hit by its first major corruption scandal on March 30, when leaked videos implicated the brother ofZelensky’s chief of staff in selling high-level government jobs. The president’s response? Silence, then denial. Zelensky’s office put out a short statement three days after the scandal broke, saying that the tapes need to be investigated although

By Oleksiy Sorokin The State Investigation Bureau, on March 30, opened a probe against lawmaker Geo Leros, a day after he leaked videos that appear to show the brother of President Volodymyr Zelensky’s chief of staff Andriy Yermak selling high-level state positions. Now Leros is under investigation for “revealing a state secret” and “interfering in the work of a state

Igor Petrashko did not specify in his property declaration an apartment in Moscow, which is owned by his wife, an estate in a village near Kiev and two SUVs. Radio Svoboda reports about it The newspaper reports that the declaration does not specify a house in the elite cottage “Sunny Valley” in the village of Romankiv near Kiev. According to the official

The Constitutional Court of Ukraine has canceled most of President Volodymyr Zelensky’s judicial reform, recognizing a number of clauses as unconstitutional, according to a decision published on March 12. The judicial reform law was initiated by Zelensky with the ostensible aim of firing tainted judges and creating credible judicial institutions. He signed it in November. However, two commissions tasked with cleansing the

Most Ukrainians see no progress in the investigation of high-profile criminal cases. More than 80% of Ukrainian citizens consider the fight against corruption at the highest government levels unsuccessful, that’s according to a survey conducted by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS) February 21-25. “The fight against corruption in the highest government levels is unsuccessful, 83% of respondents believe

For many years of reforms, the Constitutional Сourt of Ukraine, or CCU, remained out of the focus of the politicians and anti-corruption activists. Even though, it was the court who helped Viktor Yanukovych establish an authoritarian regime. In 2010, these judges declared that changes to the Constitution establishing a parliamentary-presidential regime were adopted with violation of the procedure. Thus, the

By Oleg Sukhov. After he was elected president in April, Volodymyr Zelensky announced a radical overhaul of Ukraine’s law enforcement agencies to introduce the rule of law and eliminate corruption.  He said the reforms would be fast and radical. In its first weeks, the new Verkhovna Rada indeed seemed to be making great progress.  More than half a year later, many

The studies of the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) in Ukraine showed a fall of two points, in connection with which the country fell to the 126th place in the world rating and stopped at the level of 2017, Transparency International indicates in its report. “The CPI is based on research for the past two years. Since the beginning of 2017,

The Kyiv Administrative District Court on Jan. 21 re-elected Pavlo Vovk, a suspect in a high-profile obstruction of justice case, as its chairman, triggering a backlash from civil society. Vovk had been the court’s chairman since 2010. In August, he temporarily stepped down and was replaced by Volodymyr Keleberda. Vovk’s resignation came after he was charged with issuing unlawful rulings and obstructing justice.