Exposing corrupt Ukrainian judges and prosecutors might sound dangerous, but for Kate Butko, it’s nothing compared to what she’s previously dealt with. Butko runs PROSUD, an eleven-person project founded in 2016 by activists from the Automaidan, an anticorruption nongovernmental organization that organized car owners during the Euromaidan. Funded by the National Endowment for Democracy and the United Nations Development Program, PROSUD focuses on exposing corrupt judges and prosecutors.
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An activist dressed as a monster judge stands in front of the Supreme Court on Sept. 13, 2017. He and other protesters demonstrated against the High Qualification Commission’s decision to nominate 30 Supreme Court judges deemed as corrupt or dishonest by the Public Integrity Council, a civil-society watchdog.
