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Those in power declare modest earnings, flaunt expensive watches
13.05.2013
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
“Travelling parliament” laws get Presidential OK
22.04.2013
The President’s decision to sign the laws comes after a number of commentators, including the head of Transparency International Ukraine were entirely blunt about the consequences of this travelling show for Ukraine’s dismal record on fighting corruption
Anti-corruption measures don’t apply to most corrupt areas
19.04.2013
The Justice Ministry has stated that the losses from corruption last year came to nearly 1.8 billion UAH. Experts believe that the real figures are many times greater and point to the inadequate anti-corruption legislation
Strictly confidential corruption
17.04.2013
Justice Minister Lavrynovych has defended the secret nature of the Unified State Register of Persons Guilty of Corruption Offences making it just about as useful a weapon against corruption as the inactive National Anti-Corruption Commission under the President
High Court sees no problem with travelling opposition-less parliament
15.04.2013
The High Administrative Court on Friday has found that the “Verkhovna Rada” which held a meeting on 4 April on Bankova St and not in the Verkhovna Rada buildings to which opposition MPs were not admitted was able to pass laws
Donetsk lawyer goes to court over “travelling Verkhovna Rada” decisions
11.04.2013
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
Dodgy „parliament”, dodgy laws
09.04.2013
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
An Anti-Corruption Programme for the record
05.04.2013
Transparency International Ukraine has warned that the 2011-2015 State Anti-Corruption Programme worth 820 million UAH is virtually not being implemented
Wage arrears cross the billion mark
28.03.2013
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%
They’re stalling anti-corruption reforms in Ukraine
07.03.2013
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
Shadow Procurement: the first figures
06.03.2013
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
Nothing to say about Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Committee
28.02.2013
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
Illegal mine resumes work after fatal accident and police look the other way
11.02.2013
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
Ukraine continues its slide in corruption ratings
30.01.2013
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 …
Elections out of the way – now the prosecutions begin
17.01.2013
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
For friends in high legal office?
15.01.2013
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
MPs quietly reinstate generous benefits
14.01.2013
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
Azarov’s Cabinet of Ministers increases spending on itself
11.01.2013
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.
Charge of “hooliganism” against Chornobyl protest leader
03.01.2013
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
The President’s guaranteed luxury
31.12.2012
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.
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