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 40 new individual profiles of PIC members across the first, second, and third compositions, and 55 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.

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.