It follows from the preliminary decision released by the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe on Friday that the Ukrainian law on Lustration contains some serious flaws. The decision, ...

efforts to become a civilized European country. But the law is likely to be sabotaged by officials and faces legal obstacles. Lawyers say that it will be hard to enforce it because courts may rule ...

Many experts believe that corruption in Ukraine has a systemic nature and negatively affects the internal and external processes of the country’s development and, as a result, its position in the ...

The Ukrainian parliament on Thursday adopted a bill on government lustration at first reading. The bill lays down legal framework and the procedure of lustration of the government with the aim of ...

KYIV -- Ukrainian prosecutor Oleh Valendyuk should have been out of a job last fall, the victim of a lustration law meant to clear away members of former President Viktor Yanukovych's team after his ...

Considering the goal of transitional justice is to reform a nation and its public institutions, ultimately steering the country toward becoming a peaceful democracy, supporters argue that the action ...

The new government emerging in Kyiv is facing an old problem: What to do about those who worked for and supported the former government, which is now considered criminally corrupt and thoroughly ...

Dealing with personnel inherited from prior regimes in the administration of transitional states is critical for democratic consolidation, a problem traditionally addressed by the dichotomy of ...

A former communist-era official in Macedonia, Petar Karajanov, has won his case against the state before the European Court of Human Rights. This post is also available in this language: Shqip ...

The following is a guest post from McGill University political scientists Maria Popova and Vincent Post. The idea of lustration is gaining momentum in Ukraine. A recent survey shows that nearly 80 ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract One part of building a new constitution after wars, revolutions, civil wars, or dramatic regime changes is to draw a cultural boundary in time ...