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What did Kyiv's new security strategy promise?
Summary
A look back at the political developments in Ukraine around 15 September 2020, from a national security strategy to a plagiarism finding.
What was happening in Ukrainian politics on 15 September 2020? The day followed two notable developments.
On 14 September 2020, President Volodymyr Zelensky approved the National Security Strategy of Ukraine, titled "Human Security – Security of the Country". The document's title set out its stated emphasis on the individual alongside the state.
Three days earlier, on 11 September 2020, the ethics committee of the National Agency for Higher Education Quality Assurance ruled that plagiarism had been found in the works of Serhiy Shkarlet, acting Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine. The ruling concerned a sitting acting minister and placed the question of academic integrity within the government itself.
Together, the two developments marked the political agenda in Kyiv in mid-September 2020: a strategic document signed at the presidential level, and an ethics finding involving a member of the cabinet.
