Four years ago, on February 7, 2016, a patrol police officer Serhiy Oliynyk shot dead a minor Mykhailo Medvediev with a service gun in Kyiv. Medvediev’s only “fault” was that he was a passenger in a car whose driver committed an administrative offence. Enraged polizeien embarked on a real manhunt, […]
Investigations
Unfounded turned out to be the fears that Iryna Venediktova, a new head of the State Bureau of Investigations, will not be able to cope with her official duties, as she has never in her life dealt with criminal procedure and has no idea about how pre-trial investigation agencies function. […]
In late 2019, within four days from December 13 to December 16, Ukrainian courts put a legal end to the “fight against corruption,” which U.S. Embassy had launched in Ukraine 5 years ago. First, on December 13, 2019 the Rivne Oblast Court of Appeals finally found Artem Sytnyk, the Head […]
Artem Sytnyk, the Director of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine, has been officially recognized a corrupt person and added to the Unified State Register of Persons Who Have Committed Corruption or Corruption-Related Offences. The basis for adding Sytnyk to the corrupt persons register is order 572/2133/19 of the Sarny […]
On December 12, 2019 detectives of the Main Investigation Department of the National Police of Ukraine notified five people of suspicion in murdering Pavlo Sheremet, a Russian reporter of Belarus origin. Sheremet lived in Kyiv, worked on the “Vesti” radio station belonging to Oleksandr Klymenko, the Minister of Revenues and […]
Ukrainegate is raging in the United States. The House of Representatives is conducting hearings regarding possible impeachment of Donald Trump, the Democrats are accusing the Republican president in pressing Ukraine with the intent of making Ukrainian prosecutors probe shenanigans of the former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter, […]