Various means were used to stop documentary film showings which include a film about the President’s controversial and top secret residence at Mezhyhirya

The Mayors and Deputy Mayors of Kharkiv, Kherson and Sumy are refusing to scan their declarations into digital form which effectively restricts people’s access to important public information

The civil movement CHESNO reports that only 183 MPs have published income declarations in open sources. The other 261 MPs have not published them, nor did they make them available when requested by CHESNO

One of the heads of the money watchdog “Nashi Hroshi” and regular writer for Dzerkalo Tyzhnya Oleksy Shalaisky has received the Oleksandr Kryvenko Prize for Progress in Journalism

Journalists writing on corruption have begun collecting signatures to a petition calling for a return to transparency over public procurement following the disastrous bill signed by the President in August 2012

Two years after adoption of the Public Information Act, Roman Kabachiy from the Institute of Mass Information writes that officials either don’t know their duties or know them enough to write formal fob-off responses. There remain also areas of great importance which the public are prevented from knowing about.

On Tuesday Ukraine’s parliament adopted a law on implementing State anti-corruption policy, and rejected two draft bills aimed at strengthening that same anti-corruption policy

During 2012 the President’s Administration paid 100 thousand UAH to Tantalit - a firm believed to have links with the Yanukovych family - for renting an office for Viktor Yanukovych in the latter’s sumptuous residence at Mezhyhirya.

Oleksy Khmara from Transparency International in Ukraine believes the President’s "royalties" for non-existent publicaitons, as well as the entire business of Yanukovych’s elder son may be about trying to legalize income

The Verkhovna Rada has refused to publish information about the officials working for the Office of the VRU and indicate how much they earn, claiming that this is internal organizational information

Mega-earnings in royalties for a second year running with not a word published and from a printing firm not known for publishing books - everything ripe, you’d think, for a grandiose scandal and some very hard-hitting questions. Not, however, in Ukraine.

Well-known journalist Serhiy Leshchenko’s appeal was lodged after the first instance court upheld the Constituitonal Court’s refusal to show the submission claiming that it contained official information and personal data

The Head of Ukraine’s State Archive, Olha Ginzburg from the Communist Party continues to assert that Ukraine’s archives are the most open in the world and still maintains her position that they should be much more restricted.

The Regional Press Development Institute has reported two cases where the court has allowed legal suits against refusals by the authorities to provide information

Olexander Afronin, President of the Ukrainian Publishers and Booksellers Association has never heard of royalties (like the President’s 15 and a half million UAH) for books which have not been written where there isn’t even a plan for it

The largest amount in President Yanukovych’s income declaration, as in the previous year, is supposed to be 15 and a half million UAH in royalties according to an agreement signed in 2011.

Not only are the Roma being used to nominally fulfil EU requirements needed for visa liberalization, but the “Strategy” supposed to fulfil these is being treated as classified information.

OPORA has drawn attention to the questionable situation where public funding is allocated to pay MPs substantial amounts for “assistants”, yet the public and media are refused information about who these assistants are

Serhiy Leshchenko, well-known Ukrainska Pravda journalist is asking the European Court of Human Rights to confirm his right to know how much the President paid for a State-owned piece of land within Mezhyhirya

The Regional Press Development Institute are preparing an application to the European Court of Human Rights over refusal to provide information about public funding allocated for each official of the Rivne Regional State Administration