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What Ukraine's early June 2019 rulings and laws changed
Summary
A look back at legislative and court decisions in Kyiv in the days before 11 June 2019, alongside a US warning to Turkey.
What had changed in Ukraine's legal landscape by 11 June 2019? In the days before that date, parliament and the Constitutional Court made decisions touching impeachment, anti-corruption powers and asset declarations.
On 6 June 2019, the Verkhovna Rada passed a law on temporary investigative commissions and temporary special commissions of the parliament. The law sets out the procedure for impeaching the President of Ukraine.
The same day, the Constitutional Court of Ukraine ruled certain provisions unconstitutional. One ruling covered provisions on electronic asset declarations for civic activists. A second, brought 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.
A regional note
Beyond Ukraine, on 7 June 2019 the United States notified Turkey that it would cancel Turkey's purchase of F-35 fighter jets if the government went ahead with buying Russia's S-400 missile defence system.
Together, these reports mark a busy stretch in the days leading up to 11 June 2019: a new impeachment procedure in Ukrainian law, two court rulings affecting anti-corruption tools, and a US warning to Ankara over a Russian missile system.
