Editorial: Zelensky just betrayed Ukraine's democracy — and everyone fighting for it
Last week, we warned of a coming anti-democratic backslide. Now, we see it happening.
Under the new law, the prosecutor general, a notoriously non-independent figure, will now oversee anti-corruption investigations — in a complete overturn of the system that was set up to be independent from other law enforcement bodies.
In reality, it means that Zelensky’s office will be able to stop investigations with a phone call.
It also closely follows an escalated prosecution of Ukraine’s best-known anti-corruption activist, an outspoken critic of Zelensky.
Editorial: Zelensky just betrayed Ukraine's democracy — and everyone fighting for it
Editor’s note: This editorial has been updated to reflect the fact Zelensky signed the bill into law on the evening of July 22, as shown on the Parliament's website. Last week, we warned of a coming anti-democratic backslide.The Kyiv Independent
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in reply to IndustryStandard • • •Before you straight up downvote this after reading just the headline you should know that Kyiv Independent is highly credible and staffed with reputable journalists.
mediabiasfactcheck.com/kyiv-in… (not that I personally think MBFC is a reputable references, but the people who would downvote this, for the most part, do)
Kyiv Independent – Bias and Credibility - Media Bias/Fact Check
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in reply to eldavi • • •Hey, they also react on who post this and the source, when the same info just with way less inflammatory headline was posted by someone who is not western shill from something that isn't just CIA media front, it was like -30 votes lol.
Also, it's starting, Zelensky's getting demythologised by even western aligned media prior to his inevitable downfall. Just like us commies said long ago, but libs were frothing at mouth then.
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in reply to eldavi • • •We have redditors among us?
True, sometimes whole threads in a heated discussion, that revolves around assumptions they have about the title.
Hold your horses, at least skim over the article, fucking redditors /s
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in reply to IndustryStandard • • •So, unnamed journalists, or perhaps the owner, or...? No leader is perfect, but wartime and holding your own against Putin is no easy feat. You could do 1000x worse than him and now you're nitpicking during war time? I guess I'm jealous that you feel like you can when our trainwreck is still building concentration camps to enrich his buddies.
The last few lines are getting closer,
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in reply to pelespirit • • •The independent is journalist owned, afaik.
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in reply to wildbus8979 • • •This is wikipedia, so it's probably a little biased. Biased in what way is something I don't know enough to say. This does tell us something though, they want to hold everyone's feet to the fire. I understand why journalists want to do this is normal times, but when there is a war going on, you need people to be behind you. Also, most people are ignorant and need to be spoon fed, especially during war time. They have other shit on their mind and they need a hero in their lives.
The Kyiv Independent
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Edit: I'm going to add this, they are owned by journalists and a media company apparently
English-language Ukrainian media outlet
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in reply to pelespirit • • •On the whole Wikipedia is biased toward capitalism & Western imperialism/neocolonialism.
The Grayzone, 2020: Meet Wikipedia’s Ayn Rand-loving founder and Wikimedia Foundation’s regime-change operative CEO
Katherine Maher has since left her Wikimedia CEO position for the NPR CEO position. She’s also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Atlantic Council, and the US State Department’s Foreign Affairs Policy Board, among other Atlantacist organizations. She used to work for the World Bank.
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in reply to pelespirit • • •The Ukrainian revolution had from the very start an anti corruption message. Politicians have both taken advantage and undermined it. This week is not unexpected. Zelenskyy backtracking today is not unexpected. Him using smoke and mirrors, in his new idea, to avoid undermining political allies will not be unexpected next month.
It is utterly predictable that this newspaper will issue similar editorial later.
One day there will be not so much corruption in the life blood of Ukrainian politics. But not soon. Maybe in a generation?
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in reply to Arcane2077 • • •No, western media (and aligned to them) just hushed all mentions of corruption in Ukraine, or else someone might ask why they are sending so much money and weapons to such corrupted country. Now when the money stream dies off and USA is preparing to pivot from Ukraine to Asia, western media are again allowed to express criticism toward Ukraine.
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Poland once threw its doors open to millions of Ukrainian refugees, but the mood has shifted
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the "our European [read: white] brothers/sisters" shtick is tearing apart.
Poland has begun to deport Ukrainian refugees
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