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CrimeaWatch has documented six negative integrity conclusions adopted by Ukraine's Public Integrity Council between 29 July and 30 September 2026, all concerning candidates for appellate judgeships, in which travel to or family ties in occupied Crimea were treated as integrity risks. 73 instance files were added to the database.
Read more →CrimeaWatch has completed research and verification on 33 decisions of Ukraine's High Qualification Commission of Judges, spanning two Commission compositions from 2017 to 2026, in which panels treated a judge's or candidate's connection to occupied Crimea as material to their fitness to serve.
Read more →Beginning September 3, 2026, CrimeaWatch contacted twelve of the fourteen organizations newly documented as having formed the Public Integrity Council, each with the specific facts recorded about it and five calendar days to respond. For two organizations no contact channel could be established.
Read more →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.
Read more →Twelve organizations were admitted to the assembly that formed the Public Integrity Council in 2025. Between them they put forward 41 nominations covering only 24 people for 20 seats, and 14 of the 18 members elected were nominated by two organizations at once.
Read more →CrimeaWatch has formally contacted all 40 organizations currently documented in its Entities section, providing each with the full text of its published profile and a fixed five-day window to respond before the record stands as final.
Read more →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.
Read more →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.
Read more →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.
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