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What did Kyiv's security strategy change in September 2020?
Summary
A look back at a presidential strategy approval and a plagiarism ruling involving the acting education minister, reported in the days before 15 September 2020.
What was on Ukraine's political agenda on 15 September 2020? Two developments from the preceding days framed it: a new national security strategy and a plagiarism finding against a member of the government.
On 14 September 2020, President Volodymyr Zelensky approved the National Security Strategy of Ukraine, titled "Human Security – Security of the Country". The document was approved a day before the date covered here.
Three days earlier, on 11 September 2020, the ethics committee of the National Agency for Higher Education Quality Assurance ruled that it had found plagiarism in the works of Serhiy Shkarlet, Ukraine's acting Minister of Education and Science. The ruling concerned an official who held the post in an acting capacity.
Together, the two items showed a political week in which the head of state set out a security framework while questions about the integrity of a ministerial figure were raised by an independent body.
