Corruption

Businessmen buy state officials. State officials eagerly trade themselves. The latter voluntarily enter the bargaining: because in the event of successful ending, beside pension, they sew up comfortable living not only for themselves but for their grandchildren inclusive owing to their state-financed (i.e. financed by regular citizens of Ukraine) positions. Four Frontier Guards and a...

… it will finish as a loop!” a poet said. This seems to have been said of Sergey Velizhanskiy, a people’s deputy from the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc. And his business partner Andrey Senchenko. Slightly more than a year and a half passed, and the Prosecutor General’s Office finally reacted to our journalist investigation about the...

«Tit-for-Tat» On 30 March 2006 Ukraine witnessed an event poorly covered by most mass media: President Viktor Yushchenko decorated Koitoro Matsuura, the UN Director General for Education, Science and Culture (UNESCO) with an order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise of the 2nd rank. According to the President’s decree, the General Secretary of UNESCO was decorated...

A couple of days ago, a man broke into the office of our Internet publication, shouting that he has got a bomb in his shabby “Ukrtelekom” bag. – I mean, information bomb, – he calmed down our employees. Straight off plopping down onto a chair, the visitor winkled out from his bag a pack of...

In September of the next 2008 year, Ukraine is supposed to account for implementation of anti-corruption recommendations to the Council of Europe’s Group of States against Corruption (GRECO), which were given to Ukraine in the GRECO’s evaluation report in terms of level of corruption in our state. It is worth stressing that on the 1st...

A Real Colonel? On 16 March of this year I received a phone call from a stranger. “This is Colonel Melnik Viktor Aleksandrovich speaking, an assistant of General Grishko Vladimir Danilovich.” Honestly, if I hadn’t been driving a car at that moment, I would have stood at attention and frozen with reverence.“Vladimir Danilovich and I...