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Halya Coynash: ‘Faked reform’ on electronic declarations lets Ukrainian officials steal with impunity
Activist protest near Verkhovna Rada for public income declaration on July 13, 2016.
Transparency International in Ukraine and other NGOs have condemned what they see as deliberate sabotage of the electronic income declaration system, and two prominent newspapers have called on the West to refuse both financial aid and visa-free travel until Ukraine's leaders stop trying to con the country's citizens. There are situations where half a reform is better than none. This was not one of them, and civic activists are outraged at what they call sabotage of a vital reform.
