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What did Kyiv's September 2020 politics show?
Summary
A national security strategy and a plagiarism ruling against an acting minister marked the days around 15 September 2020.
What was occupying Ukrainian politics on 15 September 2020? Two developments from the preceding days set the agenda: a new national security strategy and a ruling on an acting minister.
On 14 September 2020, President Volodymyr Zelensky approved the National Security Strategy of Ukraine, titled "Human Security – Security of the Country". The title put the individual at the centre of how the document framed national security.
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 academic integrity alongside the strategy among the issues of that week.
Taken together, the two items showed a government setting out its long-term security outlook while one of its acting ministers faced a formal finding from an education quality body.
