Kyiv's legal week: impeachment rules and a court ruling on NABU
A look back at two legislative and judicial decisions in Ukraine reported on 6 June 2019, and a separate US warning to Turkey.
What did Ukraine's institutions decide in the days leading up to 7 June 2019? Two developments, both dated 6 June, stood out.
First, the Verkhovna Rada passed the Law on Temporary Investigative Commissions and Temporary Special Commissions of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. The law regulates the procedure for impeaching the President of Ukraine.
Second, the Constitutional Court of Ukraine ruled certain provisions unconstitutional on the same day. One set concerned e-declaration rules as they applied to civic activists. The other, brought to the court by a plant owned by Kolomoisky, concerned the right of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) to seek to have corrupt deals declared invalid. The court found the provisions on that right unconstitutional.
Taken together, the two decisions touched the mechanics of presidential accountability and the tools available to anti-corruption bodies, a combination that made 6 June a notable date for Ukraine's public institutions.
Elsewhere on 7 June 2019
Outside Ukraine, the United States notified Turkey on 7 June 2019 that it would cancel Turkey's purchase of F-35 fighter jets if the Turkish government went ahead with buying Russia's S-400 missile defence system.
