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 its creation in 2016. Four of them — the Ukrainian Bar Association, Transparency International Ukraine, the Nova Kraina Civic Platform and the DEJURE Foundation — have delegated members to all four compositions without a single gap. CrimeaWatch publishes the complete registry below, compiled from the Council’s own composition rosters and from the published decisions of the High Qualification Commission of Judges that admit organizations to the assemblies forming it.

Who Vetted the Vetters: The Narrow Pool Behind Paragraph 1.5

September 2, 2026

Twelve civic organizations were admitted to the assembly that formed the fourth composition of the Public Integrity Council in July 2025. Between them they submitted 41 nominations — covering only 24 distinct people, for 20 seats. Fourteen of the eighteen members ultimately elected were nominated by two organizations at once. One organization, the DEJURE Foundation, nominated nine of the 24 candidates and saw six of them seated: a third of the Council.

Right of Reply: CrimeaWatch Formally Notifies All 40 Documented Entities

August 31, 2026

Beginning August 31, 2026, CrimeaWatch formally contacted all 40 organizations currently documented in its Entities section — every law firm, media outlet, advocacy group, and civic organization whose institutional conduct is recorded on this site in connection with the Public Integrity Council’s Crimea-recognition methodology. Each organization received the full text of its published profile and five calendar days to respond before that record is treated as final.

This is not a courtesy extended at our discretion. It is methodology, applied without exception, to every entity this site names.