Roman Doludaryov is particularly concerned by the changes involving billions made to the 2013 State Budget by the ruling majority at a meeting which opposition MPs were stopped from attending

During blackouts, looters grab their chance. During any high-profile events or disturbances in Ukraine, it’s all too often parliament that needs to be closely watched

Transparency International Ukraine has warned that the 2011-2015 State Anti-Corruption Programme worth 820 million UAH is virtually not being implemented

According to the State Statistics Service, in February Ukrainians were owed more than 1.1 billion UAH in unpaid wages. Since the beginning of the year arrears have risen by 23.4%

This was the title of a civic protest by Transparency International in Ukraine and other NGOs angry at the stalemate over the National Anti-Corruption Strategy and State Programme on Preventing and Countering Corruption

Six months after a scandalous law which removes state enterprises from the tender system, the civic watchdog “Nashi Hroshi” [“Our Money”] reports that the amounts of public funding now unaccounted for has risen sharply

Over the three years since it was created, the Committee has effectively done nothing. Far from one fifth of its members being from NGOs, the one civic representative left in August 2011 in protest at Yanukovych’s signing of a law removing around a third of public procurement from tender procedure

The head of the Horlivka Police, having consistently denied the existence of the kopanka or illegal mine, is now trying to claim that the man who died organized it

Hardly surprising results in the 2012 Corruption Perception Index given that the President’s “National Anti-Corruption Committee” hasn’t met for over a year, a law has removed a third of public procurement from tender procedure, and more …

As feared, Volodymyr Derkach, one of the leaders of the protest by Donetsk Chornobyl clean-up workers in 2011 and candidate in a single-mandate electoral district during the last elections, is facing criminal proceedings in a case with very worrying features

The public spending watchdog Nashi Hroshi [Our Money] reports that the High Council of Justice has entered into another contract with the only bidder being Masterbud and without any detail about the work required

With no elections on the horizon, MPs were no longer inclined to suspend the norms of the law which entitle them and former MPs to considerable perks

Despite the crisis and reduction in social benefits, Ukraine’s Cabinet of Ministers has decided to increase funding for its official apparatus and has created new services. Expenditure on the government is increasing together with the country’s debts.

Another criminal case may have been concocted against a leader of the 2011 Donetsk Chornobyl clean-up workers’ protest 2 months after he ran for parliament as United Opposition candidate

Nashi Hroshi [Our Money] journalists decided that since since the President will doubtless tell the country in his New Year speech how much he’s done for the country, they would calculate just what the country had done for the President.

The amount owed is huge – 3.8 million UAH in a very poor region where mines (including illegal “kopanki”) are often the only work available.

Chornobyl workers are not being paid, while the enterprises within the Exclusion Zone are not getting all the money needed for basic needs. The need for proper funding at this, of all sites, needs no explanation

A number of NGOs, including those monitoring corruption in Ukraine, have addressed an open appeal to the President asking him to take immediate measures to safeguard public procurement procedure

Forbes.ua has investigated how 635 million UAH of public funding was spent on President Yanukovych: on hunting, fishing, cars, reception of guests and other expenses. None on open tender, and with absolutely no transparency

A court in Yenakiyevo in the Donetsk oblast has sentenced the organizer of a “kopanka” or illegal mine in which six men died after an explosion on 29 February 2012 to eight years’ imprisonment.