The Ukrainian Week

21 October, 2013	Politics	Usurpation in the Name of Europe Under the cover of European integration, the government has pushed lobbied initiatives through parliament
19 August, 2013	News	Activist fighting against Yanukovych’s son senteced to five years in jail again Public activist Kostyantyn Lavrov having fought against MAKO Donetsk Construction Company owned by Oleksandr Yanukovych was sentenced to five-year imprisonment. Novosti Donbassa reports
19 August, 2013	News	Government oriented rulings is a tradition of Ukrainian courts Ukrainian courts rarely make rulings for the benefit of opposition
26 June, 2013	Society	The Guillotine Dilemma While more and more countries abolish death penalty, most people in authoritarian countries still strongly support execution
8 April, 2013	Politics	Ukraine’s Permanent Representative to the Council of Europe: “Expert Proposals on Amendments to Election Legislation Should Be Ready by May” Kyiv and Strasbourg have recently been engaged in active dialogue — PACE President Jean-Claude Mignon visited Ukraine, and Prosecutor General of Ukraine Viktor Pshonka travelled to the main office of the Council of Europe. *The Ukrainian Week* asked Ukraine's Permanent Representative to the Council of Europe, Mykola Tochytskyi, about the outcome and context of this dialogue.
31 March, 2013	Politics	The First Impressions From the New Code Despite overall positive responses from international experts, the new Criminal Procedure Code contains many pitfalls in terms of practical implementation in Ukraine
22 February, 2013	Politics	Another Former Official Finds Asylum Abroad The Danish government is granting political asylum to former Defence Minister Valeriy Ivashchenko. In an exclusive interview for *The Ukrainian Week*, Mr. Ivashchenko talks about renewed pressure from Ukrainian prosecution and fear for his family as his motivation for leaving Ukraine
6 June, 2012	Politics	Jean-Dominique Giuliani: “Ukraine Does Not Have a Rule-of-law State” The Robert Schuman Foundation is one of the few European think tanks that systematically pays attention to Ukraine’s affairs. Its president, Jean-Dominique Giuliani, has personally come to Ukraine on a number of occasions. In his interview for The Ukrainian Week he looks at how Kyiv has failed to meet the standards of a rule-of-law state and offers his view on the persecution of former members of the government in the country.
3 May, 2012	Society	Hammer Into Anvil Innocent people trapped in the grindstones of Ukraine’s law enforcement machine often have only two options: admit their guilt and end up behind bars, or spend a long time proving their innocence and get released as invalids
3 May, 2012	Politics	Criminal-Political Code Passed hastily at night, the new Code of Criminal Procedure was supposed to be a demonstrative adaptation to international standards that will conceal broader opportunities for those in power to continue political repression in the Ukrainian reality
12 March, 2012	Politics	Concrete Justice Ukraine is governed by prison rules
28 February, 2012	Politics	Information on Officials: Temporarily Unavailable The euphoria over the Law “On Access to Public Information” is gradually evaporating
24 February, 2012	Politics	Offsetting Populism The Constitutional Court is bringing social policy out of the legislative field to be manually managed by the government. This signals preparations for the election
23 February, 2012	Politics	Court on Demand The Constitutional Court is losing its reputation as an independent arbiter and is turning into yet another component of the presidential hierarchy
22 February, 2012	Politics	Investigators On the Rise Several law enforcement officers who were responsible for producing cases against Yulia Tymoshenko and Yuriy Lutsenko have been promoted. Intriguingly, almost all of them have been moved to Ivano-Frankivsk
27 January, 2012	Politics	The Presumption of Guilt Thomas Hammarberg, the Commissioner for Human Rights at the Council of Europe, talks about his mission in Ukraine, the local judiciary system and the Tymoshenko case
27 January, 2012	Politics	Courtroom Drama Valentyna Telychenko: "Dependent courts are a bigger problem for Ukraine than the imperfect Criminal Code"
27 January, 2012	Politics	Judicial Takeover Those in power have removed all barriers from the path to a loyal Supreme Court
27 January, 2012	Politics	Justice in Kyiv The government has failed to convince either Ukrainians or the international community that the Tymoshenko case has nothing to do with politics. The Ukrainian Week asks Europeans their opinion on the trial against former Premier Yulia Tymoshenko and the situation in Ukraine
22 December, 2011	Politics	PACE Draft Resolution on Ukraine The Ukrainian Week publishes the resolution to be offered for approval at the Council of Europe session on 26 January
9 December, 2011	Politics	An Appeal With No Illusions There is every reason to believe that the court of appeals will deliver the same guilty verdict in the Yulia Tymoshenko case as the initial court did
17 November, 2011	Politics	No Respect For Judges Without Self-respect Bohdan A. Futey, Judge of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, discusses Ukrainian judicial problems and constitutional reform
1 November, 2011	Economics	Expensive Justice Court fees have been greatly increased in Ukraine. This will ease the financial situation of courts but will also limit court access for most citizens
24 October, 2011	Politics	Court Raiders Unable to replace the Chief Justice of Ukraine directly, the government is now seeking alternative methods
6 October, 2011	Politics	The Collapse of Justice Valentyna Telychenko: “We are dangerously close to the critical line, when because of the distrust of the judiciary, disputes will be not be resolved in the courts”
6 April, 2011	Politics	Raid by Reform Ukraine’s justice system was overhauled (see UW, Is. 21, 29/2010) after the law on the judicial system and the status of judges was passed and regulations about the Supreme Council of Justice were amended almost a year ago
20 January, 2011	World	Winning People’s Trust A radical judicial reform in Georgia has resulted in an objective, corruption-free justice system