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Institute of Legislative Ideas#

Employer of a PIC member participating in the Crimea-recognition methodology

Institute of Legislative Ideas is documented on CrimeaWatch because its lawyer-analyst, Artem Panchenko, serves on the Public Integrity Council (fourth composition) — the body whose methodology treats occupied Crimea as equivalent to Russian territory.

Why This Profile Exists#

A legislative analysis institute — whose core function is assessing the constitutionality and legal quality of legislation — tolerates its analyst’s participation in methodology that contradicts constitutional provisions on Ukraine’s territorial integrity.

Institutional Participation in the PIC#

ILI was admitted to the assemblies forming both the third and the fourth compositions — HQCJ decisions No. 40/zp-23 of 27 July 2023 and No. 138/zp-25 of 21 July 2025, identifying it by registration code 41738054 — and delegated Martyna Bohuslavets to the third composition and Oleg Baturin, Anton Zelinskyi, Artem Panchenko and Dmytro Tuzov to the fourth.

The Public Integrity Council is not a legal entity with a will of its own: it consists of twenty members placed there by civic organizations, and its Indicators of Integrity are adopted by those members. Participation in forming the Council is therefore a different and stronger relationship than employing someone who serves on it, and it is recorded here separately.

This does not allege that the Institute of Legislative Ideas has made any statement recognizing Crimea as Russian territory, and delegation is not a vote. The delegates vote on the Council’s conclusions; the organization does not. What is documented is the act of participation, established by published state acts and the Council’s own rosters, and the absence of any public objection to the methodology applied.

Nomination Record#

In the assembly that formed the Council’s fourth composition in 2025, the organization put forward 5 candidates and 4 were seated. Its nominations overlapped with those of DEJURE, ZMINA, the Centre for Economic Strategy and the Anti-Corruption Action Center. Across the assembly as a whole, twelve organizations submitted 41 nominations covering 24 distinct people for 20 seats, and 14 of the 18 members elected were nominated by two organizations at once.

Cross-nomination is permitted by the procedure and is not in itself irregular. It is recorded here because the authority of the Council’s Indicators of Integrity rests on the breadth of the body that adopts them, and the published candidate tables are the only public measure of that breadth. See Who Vetted the Vetters for the full arithmetic.

Response and Corrections#

The Institute of Legislative Ideas may submit a response or a correction request to [email protected]. Submissions are assessed against the underlying sources. Where a statement on this page is shown to be inaccurate, incomplete or out of date, the profile is amended and the correction is recorded.

CrimeaWatch does not publish responses verbatim and gives no undertaking to reproduce them. What a verified response changes is the content of this profile.

Summary#

Institute of Legislative Ideas is documented on this site for its institutional tolerance of Artem Panchenko’s participation in the PIC’s Crimea-recognition methodology. An institute whose core function is assessing the constitutionality of legislation has not publicly addressed its own analyst’s participation in methodology that contradicts the constitutional provisions on Ukraine’s territorial integrity it is otherwise built to uphold.

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