An old French saying goes, bad news flies in a flock. The situation in Ukraine is certainly conforming to those wise words.
Just in recent days the credibility of law enforcement was severely tested by its failed attempt to arrest political leader Mikheil Saakashvili; the parliament’s reform credentials were shattered by the introduction of a bill widely understood as designed to clip the wings of the competent and successful anti-corruption bureau; and land reform was brought to a halt by the extension, for at least another year, of a moratorium on land sales, which perpetuates a system whereby powerful people operate the land without paying rent to the state and which deprives millions of people of a fundamental freedom — that of selling their possessions if they freely decide to do so.
