The Ukrainian Weekly (https://www.ukrweekly.com/uwwp/author/mark/page/8/)
KYIV – The Constitutional Court of Ukraine on February 27 removed a key clause in the criminal code designed to prosecute corrupt public officials on that had also helped the country secure crucial lending from the International Monetary Fund and for its citizens to enjoy visa-free travel privileges to the European Union.
Ukraine tries to adjust to present-day reality
KYIV – In 2007, Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered a list of grievances towards the West, namely America, at the yearly Munich Security Conference in Germany. It was a harbinger of things to come as Russia was growing stronger amid booming oil prices and began to more aggressively reassert influence in its near abroad.
KYIV – Medical care system reformer Ulana Suprun, M.D., can perform her duties as Ukraine’s acting minister of health after the judge who suspended her last week reversed his injunction on February 14.
The decision came after four days of deliberation by Kyiv Administrative Circuit Court Judge Serhiy Karakashyan based on a Justice Ministry appeal.
KYIV – If politics wasn’t behind the dismissal of public broadcasting chief Zurab Alasania, then the shifting of its date until after the March 31 presidential election was.
This week the general director of the Public Broadcasting Company of Ukraine (UA:PBC) had his contract truncated, effective on May 6, two years before its expiration.
KYIV – A trove of documents belonging to the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) was found in a Polish milk canister on January 12 in a forest near the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast town of Rohatyn.
KYIV – Ongoing efforts to overhaul the country’s defective and corrupt health-care system took a serious blow on February 5 when a Kyiv administrative circuit court issued an injunction that barred its chief implementer – Dr. Ulana Suprun – from performing her duties as acting health minister of Ukraine.
KYIV – Ukraine has “turned the corner,” is back on investors’ radars and changing public perception beyond corruption and “war” about the country, Alexa Chopivsky, Ukraine House Davos (UHD) executive director, told The Ukrainian Weekly regarding the side venue’s performance at this year’s annual World Economic Forum in Switzerland.
KYIV – More than 130 parishes subordinate to the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) in Ukraine have voted to join Eastern Christianity’s newest canonically recognized Church: the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU).
KYIV – Kyiv’s Obolon District Court on January 24 sentenced ex-President Viktor Yanukovych, in absentia, to 13 years in prison on charges of treason and for abetting Russia’s war against Ukraine.
KYIV – The March 31 presidential election is “wide open” and “unpredictable” Ukraine experts and analysts have noted, as findings from fresh public opinion polls were released in the last two months before the New Year.
Current national lawmaker and two-time Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko is the front runner, followed by incumbent President Petro Poroshenko and newcomer Volodymyr Zelenskiy, a showman and perhaps the country’s most popular comedian.