Last week, we warned of a coming anti-democratic backslide. Now, we see it happening.

Under the new law, the prosecutor general, a notoriously non-independent figure, will now oversee anti-corruption investigations — in a complete overturn of the system that was set up to be independent from other law enforcement bodies.

In reality, it means that Zelensky’s office will be able to stop investigations with a phone call.

It also closely follows an escalated prosecution of Ukraine’s best-known anti-corruption activist, an outspoken critic of Zelensky.

  • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml
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    3 days ago

    Then seemingly everyone forgot.

    No, western media (and aligned to them) just hushed all mentions of corruption in Ukraine, or else someone might ask why they are sending so much money and weapons to such corrupted country. Now when the money stream dies off and USA is preparing to pivot from Ukraine to Asia, western media are again allowed to express criticism toward Ukraine.

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      Because they paid for them, why do so many people think these weapons deals are charity… They’re paying for them and the payments are either for trade agreements or seized Russian assets dispersed to the country Russia is currently invading.