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The Founding Registry: All 23 Organizations That Formed the Public Integrity Council, 2016–2025

September 2, 2026

Twenty-three civic organizations have taken part in forming Ukraine's Public Integrity Council since 2016. CrimeaWatch publishes the complete registry — every organization, its EDRPOU code, the compositions it staffed, and the HQCJ decisions that admitted it.

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All PIC Conclusions Analyzed: 55 Individual Profiles and 40 Organizational Profiles Document the Crimea Equivalence Network

May 5, 2026

CrimeaWatch has completed a full review of every Public Integrity Council conclusion issued through May 5, 2026, and published 55 individual profiles of PIC members across all compositions together with 40 organizational profiles — the PIC itself and the delegating bodies that staffed it. Together these profiles map the institutional network that adopted, and continues to apply, criteria equating Crimea with the Russian Federation in violation of Ukrainian constitutional law.

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The Unstated Premise: How the Public Integrity Council Treats Crimea as Russian Territory in Practice

April 4, 2026

A systematic review of all PIC conclusions published on the Council's website reveals 43 cases in which Crimea-related connections were documented — and in 32 of them, those connections formed a direct basis for a negative integrity finding. The pattern is not incidental. It reflects an institutional premise that the PIC has never publicly stated but consistently applies: that Crimea operates under Russian jurisdiction.

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