Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
The Rule of Law in Contemporary Ukraine
Ukraine’s Euromaidan protest movement, which brought about the fall of President Yanukovych in 2014, has led to a comprehensive process of reforms. However, this process is being hampered and delayed by a large number of internal and external hurdles. There are particularly significant obstacles to establishing a state governed by the rule...
Thousands March to Honor Slain Kremlin Critic Boris Nemtsov
On anniversary of opposition figure’s murder, Muscovites take to streets with banners saying ‘Heroes never die’, ‘Russia will be free!’. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
The corruption that fueled Ukraine’s 2014 revolution won’t go away
After two years of a pro-Western, pro-reform government, corruption is once again fueling political crisis in Kiev. At stake are billions of dollars, much of it siphoned from state-owned enterprises, and interests that allegedly extend to Ukraine’s leadership, including business circles close to both President Petro Poroshenko and Prime...
How Moscow Is Subverting Ukraine’s Bid for Freedom
Rather than separating the government from the oligarch class, or demolishing the old state apparatus, the top priority was to ensure that everyone — no matter how unsavory — would stay in the fight against the Russians. FP: How Moscow Is Subverting Ukraine’s Bid for Freedom …read more Source: The American Center for a European...
Poroshenko signs “party dictatorship” law
Today, Feb. 25, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has signed notorious “party dictatorship” bill No. 3700 into law, which will let parties delete party candidates from their election lists after elections, according to an announcement on the page of the law on the parliament’s official website. Despite the fact that lawmakers had refused...
Poroshenko signs law ratifying NATO representation status in Ukraine
President Petro Poroshenko signed law on ratification of the agreement between the Government of Ukraine and NATO on the status of the NATO mission to Ukraine. The document was signed on September 22, 2015 in the course of the visit of NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg to Ukraine. The abovementioned agreement provides for the establishment...
Ukraine’s Antimonopoly Committee files case against Privatbank
The Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine has opened a case against public joint-stock company commercial bank PrivatBank, the committee’s press service has reported. The committee said that it asked PrivatBank to provide information as part of two ‘oil’ investigations, but the bank refused to do this. “The Antimonopoly Committee filed...
Forget the Voters: Ukraine’s Leaders Bring in ‘Party Dictatorship’
President Poroshenko has ignored calls to veto a bill which has been condemned as a violation of electoral rights which could be used to enable parties to ignore voters’ choice and bring in obedient MPs, or those who pay most …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Militants again refuse to release Luhansk journalist Maria Varfolomeyeva
Kremlin-backed militants in the Luhansk oblast had promised to release 31-year-old Maria Varfolomeyeva on Feb 26, but yet again failed to do so. The Luhansk journalist who has been held hostage since for 13 months is said to be in a very bad physical and psychological state. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
A brief description of KHPG strategic litigations for 2015
A brief description of 264 cases of the KHPG Strategic Litigations Center is given …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
