The recent deaths of Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin and several of his top lieutenants in an airplane crash north of Moscow will likely have far-reaching implications for Africa, where the private military company has established a significant p…
The High Anti-Corruption Court celebrates its fourth anniversary, and we decided to find out the challenges and general outcomes of the institution.
The High Anti-Corruption Court of Ukraine (the HACC) and the Appeals Chamber of the High Anti-Corruptio…
I will explain why the Kremlin bothers with “elections” in a country where competitors are killed right on Red Square or their planes are shot down.
Russian society doesn’t want to stand against the dictatorship, because it has lived for hundreds of ye…
This will be a long fight. For the 10th year in a row we commemorate the reinstated Ukrainian Independence being at war, fighting for each next consecutive year of our freedom and the very existence of Ukraine and our people. The objective of russia, i…
This year’s BRICS Summit unintentionally has put the world’s justice system to its most rigorous test to date, and it is safe to conclude that the world together with Ukraine got an “F”: the war is raging on; the ICC arrest warrants are not going to be…
For a month and a half, Olena Duma has been heading the Asset Recovery and Management Agency. However, despite all the assurances of her competence and willingness to truly renew the institution, the trends we have noticed indicate otherwise. What exac…
New digest on the progress in cooperation with the IMF and World Bank covers updates between 07 August – 13 August 2023. There were not significant decisions in the Parliament or CMU regarding the fulfillment of the Memorandum. The single update of Str…
Last week wasn’t very successful regarding the obligations under the Memorandum with the IMF. Only few steps were taken to get closer to fulfilling a couple of promises, but not structural benchmarks. But there was a progress under the World Bank coope…
Oftentimes, when I’m compelled to explain the Russian policy of deportations to international journalists, I stumble upon some sort of resentment. “I’ve seen the numbers but I can’t quite get who those deported people are”, “We can’t mix deportations a…
On July 26, the Cabinet of Ministers published the long-awaited report of the external independent assessment of the effectiveness of the National Agency on Corruption Prevention. Let’s find out what should be done next.
Transparency International Ukra…