This year, the High Anti-Corruption Court turns 5. Since its inception, much has been said about both the achievements and the challenges that impede reaching the objectives of criminal proceedings. However, these five years of the HACC’s operation hav…
As the US grapples with the rise of China, a ‘China First’ national security policy has gained traction in some quarters in Washington. The main aspect of the policy is already well-understood in terms of prioritizing US defence assets for the Indo-Pac…
Ukraine is a country where, at least in the fight against corruption, civil society plays a very important role, more important than the role it has in most other countries. There are several reasons for this: the high level of corruption in Ukraine, t…
In particular, on June 18, 2020, when Russia allegedly ended its ban of Telegram
Today, we have an important piece of the puzzle that we started to put together a year and a half ago about the nature of Pavel Durov’s relationship with the Russian autho…
Unfortunately, even after almost 11 years of war with Russia, which actually began in 2014, Russian gas is still being transported to Europe through Ukraine. At the end of 2024, the 5-year contract signed in 2019 between Naftogaz and Gazprom expires. T…
Authors:
Gyunduz Mamedov, PhD in Law, Deputy Prosecutor General of Ukraine (2019-2022)
Serhiy Zayets, Lawyer, Advisor on the Application of ECHR Practice and International Human Rights Protection, AZONES Law Firm
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Despite the imposition of 14 sanctions packages against Russia, the restrictions have not yet affected its aluminium production. As a result, the Russian aluminium giant Rusal has not only not been subject to any sanctions, but also continues to own su…
The buzz surrounding a possible “ceasefire” in the war has been growing louder. While it’s unproductive to dwell on speculations about its likelihood, it is evident that any halt in combat would play right into the Kremlin’s hands. Instead, we need to …
Two-thirds (ten out of fifteen) of Russians who will compete under a neutral flag in Paris support Russian war crimes. The news of this last week spread across the world and Ukrainian media. Only the International Olympic Committee (IOC) continues to t…
Every war has rules. No matter how strange it may sound in the conditions in which every Ukrainian lives nowadays. Every war shows us that these rules are constantly being violated. And this suggests that only the inevitability of punishment can bring …