It follows from the preliminary decision released by the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe on Friday that the Ukrainian law on Lustration contains some serious flaws. The decision, ...

Many experts believe that corruption in Ukraine has a systemic nature and negatively affects the internal and external processes of the country’s development and, as a result, its position in the ...

efforts to become a civilized European country. But the law is likely to be sabotaged by officials and faces legal obstacles. Lawyers say that it will be hard to enforce it because courts may rule ...

If the Constitutional Court of Ukraine decides that the law on lustration does not meet the Constitution of Ukraine, the Verkhovna Rada would amend it and pass it again, Ukrainian Prosecutor General ...

Considering the goal of transitional justice is to reform a nation and its public institutions, ultimately steering the country toward becoming a peaceful democracy, supporters argue that the action ...

Over 4,000 former public officials face charges for having failed to submit statements about whether they collaborated with the secret police during the Communist era or afterwards. The information ...

The new government emerging in Kyiv is facing an old problem: What to do about those who worked for and supported the former government, which is now considered criminally corrupt and thoroughly ...

The law, which bans remnants of the former NDP from participating in political life, has been issued just days before elections are due to be held The long promised lustration law, which ...

The lustration process is being conducted contrary to Constitutional Court rulings and is violating human rights, a round table in Skopje organized by the Open Society-Macedonia foundation heard. This ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract One part of building a new constitution after wars, revolutions, civil wars, or dramatic regime changes is to draw a cultural boundary in time ...