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The Economist: Ukraine’s constitutional court attacks anti-corruption laws

By The Economist.

Published Nov. 18, 2020 at 4:37 am

Demonstrators burn smoke bombs in the yellow-blue colors of the Ukrainian flag during a protest action of representatives of different Ukrainian political parties and movements outside the Constitutional Court building in Kyiv on Nov. 3, 2020. Days earlier, on Oct. 30, the court blocked a number of anti-corruption laws including on free public access to officials' declarations, a significant rollback of Ukraine's anti-corruption reforms. (AFP)

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In 2014 Ukrainians got so fed up with the grotesque corruption of their political class that they staged a revolution. Since then, reformers have been trying to build institutions to hold the country’s oligarchs and crooked politicians to account.