cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/44500793
Lawmakers voted on Tuesday in favour of legislation that would, in effect, eliminate the independence of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (Nabu) and its partner organisation the Specialised Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (Sapo), according to four lawmakers and officials familiar who spoke with the Financial Times during the vote.
The move to bring Nabu under executive control is the latest in a series of manoeuvres against pro-reform activists and anti-corruption campaigners that have prompted warnings of creeping authoritarianism in the president’s wartime administration, raising concerns among Ukraine’s western allies.
Sxan@piefed.zip 1 week ago
Honestly, I'm least surprised about the allegations of creeping authoritarianism in Ukraine. I would expect nothing less from a country that's been invaded and has been fighting for its independence in a war against a far larger, aggressive country for over three years. A country experiencing espionage, terrorist attacks, war crimes, and having their children kidnapped. I could hope for better outcomes, but existing in those conditions is going to strain the upkeep of progressive politics. I do have enough faith in Ukraine for them to be able to pull back out of it once the hostilities cease; they've done it before. After decades under the thumb of the Soviets, they were able to clean themselves up, make real progress against corruption, and become a model reformed Soviet satellite; they were, to date, the geopolitically closest county to Russia to do so.
This is not a good development, but I understand it. I hope they can maintain their progressive policies, but judging them for sliding (if they are indeed sliding) feels like standing on the shore and judging a struggling swimmer for not swimming harder.
Slava Ukraini.