2009 Assessment

This peer-reviewed country report includes:

Integrity Indicators Scorecard: Scores, scoring criteria, commentary, references, and peer review perspectives for more than 300 Integrity Indicators.

Reporter's Notebook: An on-the-ground look at corruption and integrity from a leading local journalist.

Corruption Timeline: Ten years of political context to today's corruption and integrity issues.

Ukraine continues to struggle to live up to the democratic promises of the 2004 Orange Revolution. The effectiveness of the anti-corruption agency has deteriorated, while appointments to the agency continue to be heavily politicized. The national judiciary also finds its independence eroding, with the judiciary "under constant threat from individual high-ranking public officials and state bodies." Legal measures to protect whistle-blowers in the public and private sectors are non-existent. Accountability remains very weak across all levels of government, including poorly enforced conflicts of interest regulations for members of the executive, judiciary, and legislature. There are, however, a few bright spots. Civil society continues to play an important role in anti-corruption efforts despite the grim governance landscape and strong anti-corruption laws are in place.