On the eve of parliamentary consideration of the presidential draft lawon restoring the independence of the Specialised Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office and the National Anti-Corruption Bureau, Watchers publishes an in-depth interview with Vira Mykhailenko, Head of the High Anti-Corruption Court.

The election of the new composition of the Public Integrity Council (PIC) on 4 August ended in a scandal involving current members and candidates to the next composition of the Council, as well as the DEJURE Foundation that ‘moderated’ this process, and, in particular, its Executive Director, Mykhailo Zhernakov.  Before the vote on the fourth […]

Roman Maselko — formerly a banking lawyer, an active participant in and defender of protesters during the Revolution of Dignity, and later the complainant in a considerable number of disciplinary cases against judges who, in his opinion, engaged in conduct incompatible with their office.

Limitation periods for particularly grave crimes expire after three to four years.

The Shevchenkivskyi District Court of Kyiv has been examining since the summer the case of captured russian serviceman Volodymyr Ivanov, who, according to the investigation, executed two Ukrainian service members in Kursk Oblast.  Viktor Liapota and Ivan Kondratiuk served in the 241st Separate Brigade of the Territorial Defence Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

On 2 December, the Derhachi Raion Court of Kharkiv Oblast sentenced in absentia to 12 years’ imprisonment the head of a self-proclaimed ‘police’ body, Volodymyr Samoilov, for abusing civilians in the Kharkiv region.  Volodymyr Samoilov is originally from Belgorod Oblast of russia but had periodically lived in the village of Strilecha in Kharkiv Oblast for […]

On 26 November, the High Anti-Corruption Court reviewed two video recordings of searches conducted at the residence of former President and judge of the Supreme Court Vsevolod Kniaziev.

On 6 November, the Zavodskyi District Court of Zaporizhzhia sentenced russian serviceman Dmytro Kurashov, call sign ‘Stalker’, to life imprisonment on charges of executing Ukrainian defender Vitalii Hodniuk.

The reform of the Bar should become a success story on Ukraine’s path to European integration.