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Analyses | | Marcin Jędrysiak
On 31 July, Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada adopted a presidential bill (with 331 votes in favour and none against) reversing most of the legal changes introduced on 22 July that had placed the country’s anti-corruption bodies – the National Anti…
Analyses | | Marcin Jędrysiak
On 22 July, the Verkhovna Rada passed a law (with 263 votes in favour and 13 against) that effectively dismantles the independence of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and the Special Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAP) by…
Analyses | | Marcin Jędrysiak
On 17 July, the Verkhovna Rada voted (with 262 in favour and 22 against) to appoint Yuliia Svyrydenko as Prime Minister and approved the composition of her government. Mykhailo Fedorov, the former Minister for Digital Transformation,…
Analyses | | Marcin Jędrysiak
On 9 July, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) found Russia responsible for the downing of the Malaysian passenger aircraft MH17 in 2014, as well as for numerous violations of the European Convention on Human Rights in territories of…
Analyses | | Marcin Jędrysiak
On 18 June, the Verkhovna Rada (VR) passed, at second reading, a law regulating the holding of multiple citizenships. The bill was supported by 243 deputies, with 19 voting against and 9 abstaining. The new legislation allows certain…
Analyses | | Marcin Jędrysiak
On 9 May in Lviv, the foreign ministers of the so-called Core Group – a coalition of around 40 states working towards the establishment of a Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine – issued a resolution announcing the…
Analyses | | Marcin Jędrysiak, Sławomir Matuszak
On 30 April, Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Economy Yulia Svyrydenko and US Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent signed an agreement to establish the US–Ukraine Reconstruction Investment Fund. This new institution…
Analyses | | Marcin Jędrysiak
On 23 February, Volodymyr Zelensky held a two-hour press conference in Kyiv. A significant part of the event focussed on Ukraine’s relations with the United States and the prospects for ending the war. The president stated that:
Analyses | | Marcin Jędrysiak
On 18 February, in a social media post, Donald Trump called Volodymyr Zelensky a “dictator without elections” who enjoys only 4% public support. He also accused him of forcing the United States to provide Ukraine with $350 billion for a “…
Analyses | | Marcin Jędrysiak
On 3 December, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine appointed Oleksiy Chernyshov as Deputy Prime Minister and head of the newly established Ministry of National Unity, which was formed through the reorganisation of the former Ministry of…