Hero No More? Zelensky Faces Backlash at Home

Zelensky backs down, Art-loving launderers & Tracking Jho Low - Coda Story

Some terms – such as “virtue signalling” – are irritating and illuminating in equal measure. The insult “grant eater”, which is widely used in the former Soviet Union, is one of them. It is used to describe non-governmental organisations that rely on funding from abroad, specifically from Western countries, and bluntly suggests that they serve foreign interests rather than the local causes that they purport to represent. This does happen. I have…

Hero No More? Zelensky Faces Backlash at Home

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky faced a heated political scandal last week after the public backlash forced him to reverse a controversial decision that would have weakened two of Ukraine’s key anti-corruption bodies. Within 24 hours of Zelensky signing a law stripping the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAP) of their independence, mass protests erupted, forcing the Ukrainian…

Ukrainians Protest, Zelensky Listens - Lord Ashcroft

Published on KyivPost.com on 30 July 2025. What initially seemed like a presidential power-grab played out as a highly democratic process in which the people exacted a reversal with the pressure of peaceful protest. There is an ironic joke in Ukraine that every 10 years the people take to the streets and launch a revolution. In 2014, they returned to Maidan (Independence Square in Kyiv) to finish what they had started in 2004 during the so-calle…

Corruption: Zelensky Backs Down in Response to Protests in Ukraine – MSN - Corruption By Cops

Corruption: Zelensky Backs Down in Response to Protests in Ukraine  MSN Source link The post Corruption: Zelensky Backs Down in Response to Protests in Ukraine – MSN first appeared on Corruption By Cops.