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What did Kyiv's parliament decide on 7 June 2018?
Summary
A look back at the day Ukraine's legislature passed a law creating a High Anti-Corruption Court, days after a Russian court sentenced a Ukrainian journalist.
What did Ukraine's parliament achieve on 7 June 2018? It adopted a law on the High Anti-Corruption Court, the Verkhovna Rada's decision that day on a dedicated judicial body for corruption cases.
The vote came against a difficult backdrop for Ukraine in the same week. On 4 June 2018, a Russian court sentenced Ukrainian journalist Roman Sushchenko to 12 years in prison, three days before the Rada's vote.
The two developments were separate, and the reports from the time do not link them. Taken together, they show how a single week combined a legislative step in Kyiv with a harsh court ruling in Russia against a Ukrainian journalist.
Looking back, the Rada's vote on 7 June 2018 was the day the High Anti-Corruption Court law was passed, while the Sushchenko sentence of 4 June stood as a separate matter for Ukrainian public attention.
