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Ursprungligen postat av
Lucas49
Jo demokratin fungerar faktiskt i Ukraina även om mycket återstår. <korruptionen är inte längre på ryssnivå och för Amnesty så är det östra Ukraina och Krimhalvön som i första han är under uppsikt på grund av det öppna förtrycket som råder där. Nu klubbar man dessutom igenom lagar som skall gynna befolkningen i breda lager, bara det är ju sensationellt med tanke på Ukrainas historia under Moskva och det förtryck som då rådde. En fungerande demokrati har ju sjösatts i Ukraina och numera är ukrainare välkomna till unionen utan större krusiduller. Så bygger man upp en sargad eftersatt nation trots svårigheter och en opålitlig krigisk granne i norr som inte vill landet väl.
Ukraina har ju alla verktyg för att lyckas så där är jag positiv. Enda giftet för framgång är ju Ryssland och dess lille korrupte ledare.
Enligt Bo Rothstein:
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Utan effektiva och opartiska offentliga institutioner – inget välstånd, ingen tillit och ingen varaktig demokrati. Det är slutsatserna som modern samhällsvetenskaplig forskning har kommit att dra.
En fungerande byråkrati är en fråga om överlevnad.
http://www.dn.se/ledare/huvudledare/...nsk-byrakrati/
Allt som Bo Rothstein tar upp, fortfarande lyser med sin frånvaro i Ukraina.
Korruptionen är i bästa fall
oförändrad, om inte värre. För ett år sedan skickade Kiev till EU för MEP´s utfrågning om antikorruptionsreform, bl a. den nye riksåklagaren:
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Yuriy Lutsenko, the prosecutor general, said the old prosecution service “had not changed one iota” since Soviet times. “The post-Soviet system will be demolished. This must happen in the next year”, he said.
He said he would promote young people to top jobs, including former NGO activists and veterans from the conflict in east Ukraine.
“There will be a big fishing expedition for big fish … People will see that there are no more untouchables in Ukraine, that the same laws apply to everybody”, he said.
Samtidigt förklarade Kalman Mizsei (EU rule of law mission to Kiev) varför Porky-shenko valde Lutsenko som riksåklagare:
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Poroshenko installed Lutsenko, a loyalist, to make sure that the prosecution service, an important instrument of power, does not fall under the control of a political rival “under the slogan of independence”.
https://euobserver.com/foreign/133843
Ett år senare, Kestutis Lancinskas, "a former Lithuanian police chief" och Kalman Mizsei efterträdare i Kiev, är frustrerad:
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EU mission, comprised of 250 experts, is suggested to be somewhat impotent — unlike the EU's Kosovo mission, which has investigatory powers, the Kiev contingent merely offers advice to Ukraine on how to improve its state structures.
Kestutis Lancinskas synpunkter över situationen i Ukraina:
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1. - A sizeable spike in "all types of crime" in Ukraine in 2017, due to its ongoing political turmoil and economic crisis — corporate raiding, racketeering, prostitution, human trafficking, and theft are all on the march, producing a "very high crime rate."
2. - The mission has failed to clean up the country's law enforcement agencies, instead standing by while Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko, a close political ally of President Petro Poroshenko, has overseen a significant regression in many areas.
3. - Lutsenko appears more interested in settling old scores, catching and prosecuting members of the pre-coup government for alleged crimes, than stamping out corruption in his own ranks.
4. - Lutsenko has yet to catch any "big fish" — and is destroying evidence on who was behind the sniper fire that killed dozens in the lead up to the Maidan coup in 2014, evidence that may well reveal the shooters were not government-backed, but soldiers of fortune from Georgia, the Baltic states and Poland.
5. - Lutsenko has also dissolved his Reform Department, leaving the EU team in the dark as to who — if anyone — they are meant to meet and speak with in future.
6. - EU leaders simply aren't taking the country's plethora of problems seriously.
I samma intervju, en EU-diplomat som ville vara anonym, sa: the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU)
is trying to clamp down "on civil society, particularly anti-corruption activists," and the country is "seriously [backtracking] from the reforms that civil society is demanding."
There is
a risk, he said, of playing "
the usual international game," whereby locals "
pretend they do reforms to our liking" and the
EU pretends "we don't see they don't do it."
Evidently, the EU's relentless push to absorb Ukraine into its political, social and economic folds may come back to haunt bloc leaders —
but Ukraine's willingness to be absorbed may also be regretted by the country's leaders and population alike.
https://sputniknews.com/europe/20170...ne-visa-crime/
https://euobserver.com/justice/138263
SBU saboterar/trakasserar bland annat antikorruption aktivists:
Something Is Very Wrong in Kyiv
Ukraine Brags about Reforms and Harasses Activists
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Ustinova’s thinks the harassment is tied to two recent events. The Anti-Corruption Action Center (AntAC)—she’s on the board there—filed a case
demanding SBU staff file their financial disclosures as mandated by Ukraine’s e-declaration law and an article Ustinova wrote on
SBU’s involvement in corrupt drug tenders.
Ustinova is not the only AntAC executive targeted by the SBU. On April 9,
AnTAC chairman Vitaly Shabunin was the victim of a fake “protest” which—thanks to the creative use of drone technology—activists were able to determine was directed by SBU officer Roman Matkovskiy
The SBU is not shy about
initiating criminal cases based on bogus charges against activists who cross them. On February 1, the Prosecutor General's Office (PGO) opened a criminal investigation against two health reform NGOs, Patients of Ukraine and Coordination Council of All-Ukrainian Network of People Living with HIV; the directors of both NGOs were then called to the police for questioning. According to Patients of Ukraine director Olga Stefanyshyna, the case is based on the false claim that foreign grants were misused—the same charge the PGO used to target AntAC last year in a case that has since been dismissed.
Although the SBU actually harassed the anticorruption activists, reformers uniformly agree that
President Petro Poroshenko’s presidential administration directed the SBU to escalate its war on anticorruption reformers. “
Poroshenko’s team seeks to crack down on dissent by silencing anticorruption activists in advance of the 2019 presidential election. They want to discredit activists and new anticorruption institutions like NABU,” said Sergii Leshchenko, an MP with the Poroshenko Bloc and the Democratic Alliance Party, in a May 15 interview.
Misusing the SBU is not a new tactic, says Ukrainian journalist Maxim Eristavi. And it's "a temptation too big to resist for the majority of local political elites,” Eristavi said in a recent interview. The SBU has an authoritarian legacy dating back to its time as the KGB and possesses a long institutional history of illegal wiretapping, he said. “
[T]he biggest constitutional flaw in Ukraine [is] that it puts law enforcement, the SBU, and the army all under direct control of one man, the president,” he said.
It’s time for
the West to stand up for activists like Ustinova, who put regularly put their necks on the line.
Western ambassadors as well as the IMF mission director should bring up the SBU harassment cases regularly in private and public, and make clear that future financial assistance depends on respecting the rights of civil society to do its job.
May 18, 2017
http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs...-wrong-in-kyiv
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Ukraine’s Security Service fights against anti-corruption activists – evidence documented
Video made by Ukraine journalists of Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. The video tells the story about how the SBU organized at April 9 2017 a protest in front of the house of the head of Anti-Corruption Action Center NGO. His name is Vitaliy Shabunin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gcX...ature=youtu.be
EU 16 miljoners satsning från 1 jan 2017 på en antikorruptionsbyrå i Kiev under dansk ledning, verkar inte haft någon effekt över enorma korruption.
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The European Union is about to unveil a comprehensive anti-corruption programme for Ukraine
in a last effort to fight back against graft.
The anti-corruption scheme is worth €16 million, will take off on 1 January 2017 and span three years.
It will be based on four pillars:
building and developing institutions to fight corruption;
strengthening parliamentary oversight;
working with local governments; and
supporting civil society organisations and investigative journalists, who are already at the forefront of the battle.
The programme will operate from an EU office in Kiev and it will be implemented by Denmark. The world’s least corrupt country, according to Transparency International’s index, hopes to lend credibility to the project.
The same ranking puts Ukraine at 130th position of 168 - making it the most corrupt country in Europe.
But corruption still permeates everyday life, bureaucracy and politics, according to the official.
https://euobserver.com/enlargement/135045
Det är faktiskt Porky-shenko som utpekats i Panama-dokumentet, inte Putin, så håll dig till FAKTA