01.02.2016
Donbas miners charged with ‘treason’ for going on strike
Miners in Kremlin-backed militant-controlled Makiyivka may face trial for ‘treason’ after going on strike earlier in January over unpaid wages. | детальніше
Переглядів 4750
06.01.2016
Green Light for Corrupt Politicians slipped into 2016 Budget
Transparency International in Ukraine has joined MPs in trying to find out how a norm appeared in Ukraine’s 2016 Budget allowing officials to defer making electronic income and property declarations until 2017 | детальніше
Переглядів 2708
21.10.2015
Top officials still get away with corruption – thanks to Ukrainian courts
Only one in five court rulings on corruption charges against high-ranking officials ends with the person convicted and imprisoned. More often they get off with a fine or suspended sentence. In a number of cases, the defendant was acquitted despite a considerable weight of proof of guilt. | детальніше
Переглядів 2894
15.09.2015
‘Radical Party’ MP & sponsor ‘forgot’ to declare a luxury apartment in Paris
An MP and sponsor of the populist Radical Party which came to power promising to radically combat corruption has concealed ownership of a flat in the centre of Paris worth well over a million EUR. If this is an embarrassment, so too should be the news of the Radical Party’s strange electoral bedfellows in the Kherson oblast. | детальніше
Переглядів 4753
15.06.2015
Rigged and Secretive Fight against Corruption?
Scandal does not go away by being muffled, and how else can you view the refusal to allow anti-corruption investigative journalists into the first meeting of an anti-corruption commission? | детальніше
Переглядів 3604
12.06.2015
Government accused of rigging anti-corruption selection commission
Civic activists have accused the Cabinet of Ministers of rigging the selection committee for members of the National Anti-Corruption Agency and demand that NGOs actively engaged in fighting corruption be included in the process. | детальніше
Переглядів 3155
17.05.2015
Fighting Corruption the Ukrainian Way
The article looks at the specific features of corruption in Ukraine, and the process for appointing the Director of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau | детальніше
Переглядів 2942
22.04.2015
It’s Tax Time In Ukraine, And Financial Discrepancies Suggest Corruption Endures
The gaps between officials’ incomes and their assets are a painful reminder of the deep-rooted corruption and insider deals that continue to plague Ukrainian politics, despite being the main cause of two revolutions | детальніше
Переглядів 3103
03.04.2015
We haven’t lost a day
Kharkiv Human Rights Group Director Yevhen Zakharov answers criticism about the selection process for the director of Ukraine’s new National Anti-Corruption Bureau | детальніше
Переглядів 2119
06.01.2015
Shameful deception as MPs quietly shelve restrictions on own salaries
The first parliament elected after the ‘Revolution of Dignity’ in which a coalition of ‘pro-Maidan’ parties hold a constitutional majority has deftly removed provisions to the law on the budget that would remove generous additions to their basic salaries, obviously hoping it would go unnoticed. | детальніше
Переглядів 3135
31.12.2014
Damning criticism of new Anti-Corruption Bureau draft bill
Both KHPG’s Gennady Tokarev and Mykola Khavronyuk, leading specialist in criminal law and member of the board of the Centre for Political and Legal Reform, have written blistering critiques of the draft bill tabled by Yury Lutsenko on amendments to legislation regarding the planned National Anti-Corruption Bureau | детальніше
Переглядів 3022
10.12.2014
Kremlin-backed militant ‘rallies’: machine guns and ‘humanitarian aid’ sold cheap
Leaders of the self-proclaimed ‘Donetsk people’s republic’ have responded to the generally catastrophic humanitarian situation in Donbas and mounting disgruntlement by staging ‘rallies’ with the enticement being free food and / or products sold at very cheap prices | детальніше
Переглядів 2357
24.11.2014
In Donbas protests against militant rule – and hunger - mounting
The Kremlin-backed militants in Sverdlovsk have come up with pitiful amounts for public sector workers following the angry protests by over a thousand residents last week. | детальніше
Переглядів 5916
19.11.2014
Donbas Ukrainians feel betrayed
The Ukrainian government has issued a blow to people living in areas under the control of Kremlin-backed militants. That at least is how many view measures which could leave some of the most vulnerable people in Donbas without pensions, or access to hospitals, etc. | детальніше
Переглядів 4822
31.10.2014
Part of Mezhyhirya returned to the State
Almost 1.8 hectares of the former State residence and grounds at Mezhyhirya illegally privatized by Viktor Yanukovych has been restored to public ownership | детальніше
Переглядів 1945
15.10.2014
Positive anti-corruption laws passed with dubious amendments
The adoption of vital anti-corruption legislation, including on the creation of a national anti-corruption bureau was marred by criticism of amendments which anti-corruption campaigners believe may cripple the body | детальніше
Переглядів 2412
15.10.2014
Law against front organizations passed
Claims that an end has been put to the offshore age may be overly optimistic, however the law passed on Tuesday making it mandatory to name the real owners of companies is undoubtedly a good step. | детальніше
Переглядів 2073
08.10.2014
Vital anti-corruption legislation passes first hurdle
Draft laws aimed at creating an independent anti-corruption bureau, transparent funding of election campaigns and other measures vital for really fighting corruption in Ukraine were passed at their first reading on Tuesday. They could be adopted in full on Oct 14. | детальніше
Переглядів 2464
24.09.2014
Journalist investigating prosecutor deal receives threats
One of the journalists on the investigative programme ‘Nashi Hroshi’ on TV ZIK has been threatened while reporting a story. Most disturbing is the fact that the feature in question was about the Prosecutor General’s Office | детальніше
Переглядів 2674
18.09.2014
Kremlin-backed militants continue ‘appropriating’ vehicles
On the same day that parliament in a secret vote passed a law giving areas controlled by pro-Russian militants special status, a Luhansk website reports another case where a car has simply been taken away by armed members of the self-proclaimed Luhansk people’s republic | детальніше
Переглядів 2608
