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February 9, 2023
Bribery in Minregion: What Is Lozynskyi Suspected of and How He Received Funds?
Former acting Minister Lozynskyi is suspected of organizing a scheme to purchase equipment at inflated prices.

January 31, 2023
Ukraine’s Corruption Perceptions Index results and what world can expect going forward
Today, the results of the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) for 2022 have been published. Ukraine received 33 points out of 100 possible. Our score has…

January 31, 2023
Corruption, Open Data, and Security. What Does Ukraine’s Score in This Year’s CPI Reveal?
This year, Ukraine scored 33 points out of 100 in the Corruption Perceptions Index 2022. Transparency International Ukraine experts explain what these indicators mean.

January 26, 2023
Accounting, Russian Periodicals and Coverage of Activities: What Media Does the State Subscribe to?
Every year, government agencies spend millions of hryvnias on the procurement of various newspapers and magazines. Analysts of the DOZORRO Transparency International Ukraine project studied…

January 1, 2023
What Awaits Corruption Whistleblowers in 2023 and Beyond?
For Ukrainians, January 1 is not only the beginning of a new year, but also another anniversary of the entry into force of the updated…

December 30, 2022
Russian Trace in Public Procurement: Top 5 Contractors
Which companies, probably related to russia and Belarus, received government orders?

December 29, 2022
More than 1.2 mln unnecessary working hours per year: spending budget money is reported in three different systems
Reporting on contract performance both in Prozorro, Spending, and the State Treasury burdens procuring entities. At the same time, the quality of this data leaves…

December 26, 2022
Salt, sand, and bischofite: what will be used on roads in Kyiv this winter and who will profit off it
Not only “Artemsil”: streets of Kyiv this winter will be covered with salt from Egypt, Romania, and Turkey.

December 21, 2022
20 iPhones from Kurakhove for the Our Military. Why additional verification during the war is more important than an attractive headline
Why investigations dislike the rush — on the example of the case with iPhone from the Kurakhove Military Administration.

December 16, 2022
Rebuilding Ukraine: Here and Now, and in Decades to Come
Last week, Washington hosted the largest international anti-corruption event of the last two years — the International Anti-Corruption Conference (IACC 2022). And, of course, Transparency…

December 15, 2022
Without you and with light: procurement of generators in Prozorro
The DOZORRO project analyzed how much money was spent on generators, and when budget institutions began to prepare for blackouts.

December 9, 2022
Trust and Corruption during Full-Scale War
After February 24, the issue of fighting corruption ceased to be as urgent as last year. The state fought desperately for its very existence, and…

December 7, 2022
Cleaning Streets in Oblast Centers: Who Pays Whom and How Much
We decided to look into how much oblast centers spend on such services during the war, who gets the money, and how much the new…

December 6, 2022
How Privatization Helps Counter Corruption
The Cabinet of Ministers can now transfer assets to the management of the State Property Fund without the approval of their previous management bodies. What…

December 5, 2022
Public Procurement Was Not Ready for War
What problems arose after the full-scale invasion, and how can we prevent this from happening again?

December 5, 2022
Competitions in Anti-Corruption Bodies. Brave, Professional, Honest Candidates, This Challenge Is for You
Competitions to two anti-corruption institutions are a chance for you to join this work. If, of course, you meet the requirements.