Section: Investigations
Ukraine`s newly-appointed 23-year-old anti-corruption official complains over bullying
Anna Kalynchuk, recently appointed Acting Director of Lustration Department at the Ministry of Justice, has reported harassment in social networks and Ukrainian media. ”My Facebook page has been sifted down to the year of 2013. They compared me with Anastasia [Deyeva, the 24-year-old newly-appointed deputy minister of interior], ”analyzed” my...
Yanukovych to hold presser Nov 25 following questioning via video conference
Russian state-owned news agency TASS has announced a press conference of fugitive president Viktor Yanukovych to be held in Rostov-on-Don November 25. According to an UaPosition correspondent in Russia, the press conference is scheduled for 19:00 Moscow time on Friday. ”A press conference of the fourth president of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych,...
Moscow attack on Ukraine Culture Center detailed
A group of hooligans November 22 attacked the cultural center of Ukraine in Moscow, burning the Ukrainian flag and leaving a provocative graffiti on the building`s wall. The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said it was extremely disturbed over the fact, demanding an immediate investigation into the attack and insisting that all those who had committed...
Financial investigation Service to be set up no later than 2017 – Danyliuk
The Financial Investigation Service should be established in Ukraine no later than 2017, Minister of Finance Oleksandr Danyliuk said in his interview with Focus magazine. ”In order to eliminate the tax police and set up the financial investigation service, a special law should be adopted. We sought to get the new service operating as early as...
Justice Ministry explains large number of cases against Ukraine in European Court of Human Rights
The Ministry of Justice has said that a large number of cases against Ukraine to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) is the result of the imperfect national system of judiciary, said Deputy Minister of Justice Gia Getsadze, according to the ministry`s press service. ”Only by reforming the judiciary in Ukraine will we be able to ensure that...
Secret ledger in Ukraine lists cash for Donald Trump`s campaign chief
On a leafy side street off Independence Square in Kyiv is an office used for years by Donald J. Trump`s campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, when he consulted for Ukraine`s ruling political party. His furniture and personal items were still there as recently as May, according to The New York Times. See also: Ex-Yanukovych adviser to lead Trump...