Russia’s attack on Ukraine has become a real tragedy nobody would have imagined happening in Europe in the 21st century. Millions of Ukrainians fled the war and came to the West, including the German speaking countries like Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Since March alone there were nearly a million of […]
Reports in the media that the U.S. State Department awarded a former Prosecutor General Ruslan Ryaboshapka the International Anticorruption Champions Award caused a certain outrage within the prosecutors’ community. Folks tried to remember the feats in the anticorruption area that Ruslan Georgiyovych managed to perform during his short but vivid […]
Elaborate operational activities, even when carried out by such renowned professionals as the U.S. intelligence officers, often times lead to unpredicted consequences and unexpected plot twists. At times, such operations result in failures of the very agents conducting them. As a case in point, on January 4, 2021 western media […]
On December 17, 2020 the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine posted information in its Telegram channel about a tragedy that shook the whole progressive mankind. Late at night in Lviv, unidentified attackers set fire to a car belonging to a NABU detective. “A private car (a 2012 Skoda Octavia) has […]
A talk by Oleksiy Bahanets, a former Deputy Prosecutor General of Ukraine, given on December 9, 2020 at the Scientific and practical conference “On the current state of fight against criminalized corruption” at the National Academy of Internal Affairs Indeed, over the past 6 years, corruption in Ukraine has become […]
On August 29, 2020 a touching statement appeared on the official web page of the Office of the President of Ukraine following an earlier ruling by the Constitutional Court of Ukraine that found the executive order of the president of April 16, 2015 to be unconstitutional. With this order, the […]