Just about everyone credits Ukraine’s persistent activists for almost every reform win since 2014. But four years after the Maidan, the public demand to put corrupt officials behind bars remains unanswered. Does that mean that civil society and the energy of the Maidan have reached their limits? It means just the opposite, actually. Resistance to anticorruption activity has increased as reforms needed more public engagement to proceed.
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Yevhen Bystrytsky: In Ukraine, attacks on civil society spread to the regions
This photo shows Kateryna Handziuk, a civic activist from Kherson.