The long-awaited reform of Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) has finally arrived. The tentative removal of economic oversight functions that were criticized as “Soviet relicts” has been met with applauset. Yet, human rights activists warn that the law in its current form gives the SBU increased powers to intrude in private affairs and act as a tool of logical repression. Here we take apart the benefits and shortcomings of Ukraine’s perhaps most overripe reform.
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Bohdan Ben: Ukraine finally launches reform of Security Service
Masked officers of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) in combat gear stand during a ceremony to mark the 25th anniversary of the agency on March 24, 2017, in Kyiv.
