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.

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.

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.

CrimeaWatch has completed the systematic review of every conclusion issued by Ukraine’s Public Integrity Council (PIC) from the body’s establishment through May 5, 2026. Alongside this analysis, we have published 55 new individual profiles of PIC members across the first, second, and third compositions, and 40 new organizational profiles documenting the PIC itself and the civic and professional bodies that delegated members to it. This is the largest single expansion of the CrimeaWatch register since the project began.

A systematic review of all conclusions published on the Public Integrity Council’s website, completed on April 4, 2026, reveals a pattern that the Council’s published Indicators only partially describe. Across 43 reviewed conclusions, judges and candidates were assessed — negatively, in most cases — on the basis of connections to Crimea. In 32 of those cases, the Crimea-related facts formed a direct and stated basis for a negative finding. In the remaining 11, such facts were formally flagged as warranting explanation, even when the Council stopped short of treating them as decisive.

CrimeaWatch has completed the research, verification, and profiling of all 22 members of the Public Integrity Council (PIC) second composition (2018–2021). This marks the first major milestone in our documentation of how Ukrainian civil society institutions institutionalized the treatment of Crimea as Russian-controlled territory in their procedural frameworks.

What the PIC Is and Why It Matters#

The Public Integrity Council (Громадська рада доброчесності, ГРД) is a civil society body established under Ukraine’s 2016 judicial reform legislation. Its mandate was to assess whether judicial candidates and sitting judges met standards of integrity and professional ethics. PIC conclusions — while formally advisory — carried significant institutional weight: a negative finding could effectively block a candidate’s appointment or promotion within Ukraine’s reformed judiciary.