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February 20, 2020
THE COMPETITION IN THE CITY TRANSPARENCY RANKING IS BECOMING FIERCER
Anastasiia Mazurok, Chief Operating Officer of TI Ukraine, spoke with Hromadske radio about the overall trends and interest facts of the Top 100 Cities 2019…

February 3, 2020
Protection of Whistleblowers: Step One
The whistleblower of the Italian Mafia, Roberto Saviano, has been under police protection since 2006. The Mafia has announced the hunt for him after the…

January 28, 2020
Officials’ Salaries: International Experience
For several weeks the whole country has been discussing the salaries of public officials. The mass uproar was caused by the actual amounts received by…

January 23, 2020
Ukraine Loses Points in Corruption Perceptions Index 2019: What Does It Mean
Radio Free Europe has prepared a detailed publication on this year’s Corruption Perceptions Index and talked to TI Ukraine’s legal advisor Oleksandr Kalitenko what are…

January 23, 2020
The Truth Behind CPI Figures
Once a year, anti-corruption fighters and those who hardly ever think about corruption have to face the reality. That’s when Corruption Perceptions Index is published.…

January 18, 2020
Time Will Tell if Novikov Can Handle the Pressure
The Cabinet of Ministers has appointed Oleksandr Novikov the new Head of the National Agency for Corruption Prevention. At the end of December he was…

January 16, 2020
Controlled Independence of New Head of NACP. Checks and Balances
We had been waiting for it for a long time, and finally, on January 15, the Cabinet of Ministers appointed Oleksandr Novikov as the Head…

December 20, 2019
State Car Park for Budget Funds
According to the data from the Ukrainian Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association for the quarter of 2019, the most popular car model in Ukraine is Renault…

December 20, 2019
The rule of law should prevail over the desire to put people in prison
“I suppose that the rule of law prevails over the routine desire in this country of putting people into prison. By awarding the ill-founded or…

December 18, 2019
It Was Hard to Choose the Head of the NACP
TI Ukraine’s Head of Legal Kateryna Ryzhenko, who was also the co-chair of the Selection Board for the Head of the National Agency for Corruption…

December 12, 2019
Why Be Aware of Conflict of Interest
Seeking to declare the activity of the Asset Recovery and Management Agency unconstitutional in August 2018 56 MPs appealed to the Constitutional Court. Taking into…

December 10, 2019
EACH POLITICIAN SAYS THAT FIGHTING CORRUPTION IS HIS MAIN GOAL
How do we make Ukrainian anti-corruption institutions more efficient? How do we distinguish anti-corruption struggle from populism and political persecution? José Ugaz, member of the…

December 9, 2019
Corruption Is Addictive. Don’t Even Start
We live in a world where corruption is an undeniable evil, but it is not punished all that much. People want to live in dignity…

November 28, 2019
Support, control or opposition – what should public councils do?
The public discussion Public Councils: Efficient Tool or Occasional Oversight about the role of the public councils in the state processes was held on November 27. During…

November 27, 2019
Where there is no financial transparency, there is always a place for corruption
Former Peruvian Ad Hoc Attorney José Ugaz knows from experience what it’s like to put a president behind the bars. In an exclusive interview for Fakty Tyzhnia,…

November 20, 2019
THE STORY OF SEIZED LVIV OBLAST THERMAL POWER STATIONS: ON THE BRINK OF A DEVASTATION
“The situation on the power station and in the city is critical. People are left without heating, due to the power grid system overload several…