Ukraine’s constitutional court attacks anti-corruption laws
Campaigners say it has been compromised by Russia
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. One big victory was establishing an electronic asset-declaration system, an online registry where officials must list all of their main possessions. But on October 27th Ukraine’s constitutional court found a clever way to cripple this system: it struck down the anti-corruption authorities’ power to punish anyone for lying on it.
This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline “Judge not, that ye be not judged”
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