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Ukraine Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko announced Friday that Iryna Farion, a former nationalist politician known for her staunch advocacy of Ukrainian language use over Russian, was fatally shot in Lviv. In a statement released via Telegram, Klymenko indicated that investigators are considering several theories, including personal animosity and Farion’s sociopolitical activities, while not ruling out [...]

Putin spent more than four hours on Thursday chatting with journalists and constituents about matters ranging from Moscow’s endgame in Ukraine to Putin’s favorite Russian salad. Talk of Russia’s nuanced interpretations of international law featured prominently in the discussion and offered insights into the calculus driving Putin’s continued aggression in Ukraine. Below, we outline key [...]

Economist and foreign policy expert Jeffrey Sachs, a best selling author and director of Columbia University’s Center for Sustainable Development, has long argued that Russia’s hostility toward Ukraine was provoked by the U.S. vis-à-vis pushes for NATO expansion, military interventions, and other forms of meddling. In an interview with JURIST Assistant Editor Pitasanna Shanmugathas, Sachs [...]

Many experts believe that corruption in Ukraine has a systemic nature and negatively affects the internal and external processes of the country’s development and, as a result, its position in the geopolitical environment. Since gaining independence, Ukraine has created various mechanisms to prevent corruption. Calls for the need to use lustration as one of the [...]

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced Sunday that he had dismissed the Ukrainian Prosecutor General and the head of Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) from their posts amid an investigation that revealed that more than 60 SBU and Prosecutor General’s Office employees are currently engaged in treason against Ukraine. Zelensky said that he made the decision to [...]

The Pechersky District Court of Kyiv in Ukraine Monday ordered the arrest in absentia of ex-president Viktor Yanukovich on charges of treason for signing the “Kharkiv Pact” in 2010. The agreement allowed Russia to lease naval facilities in Crimea until 2042. The court, with the participation of prosecutors of the Office of the Prosecutor General, charged [...]

A Spanish judge Thursday ordered the release of pro-Russian Ukrainian blogger Anatoly Shary but forbade him from leaving the country pending an extradition hearing. Shary was arrested in Tarragona, where he has resided since 2019, by Spain’s National Police Corps at the request of Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU). Judge Jose Luis Calama of Spain’s Audencia [...]

As Russian troops closed in on Ukraine by land, sea and air on Thursday, US, Canadian and EU leaders imposed new waves of sanctions against Moscow, citing grave concerns that left unchecked, Russian aggression threatens to upend global order. Earlier Thursday, Russia’s Vladimir Putin ordered a so-called “special military operation” into Ukraine — essentially a [...]

US President Joe Biden and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin agree that principles of international law will play a key role in determining how their tensely coiled diplomatic relations will unfold. But statements released by the White House and the Kremlin projected differing views of what took place during bilateral talks Thursday on the latest [...]

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Saturday dismissed two judges from the country’s constitutional court, terming their actions a threat to national security. The move deepens the political crisis that emerged in October after the constitutional court canceled provisions of certain anti-corruption reform laws touted by Zelenskyy’s government. The judges dismissed are Oleksandr Tupytsky, the top [...]