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All PIC Conclusions Analyzed: 40 Individual Profiles and 55 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 40 individual profiles of PIC members across all compositions together with 55 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.

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

April 4, 2026

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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.

Second Composition of the Public Integrity Council: Research Complete

April 3, 2026

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CrimeaWatch has completed the verification and profiling of all 22 members of the Public Integrity Council's second composition — the body that unanimously adopted criteria equating Crimea-related ties with Russian jurisdiction.