Ukraine launches new broadcaster aimed at occupied Donbas
The station, called Dom, began broadcasting in a test mode on March 1 with the message “Ukraine is our home.”
Court to mull letting Yanukovych officials get state jobs, including prime minister
Ukraine’s Constitutional Court may overturn a law that bans top Yanukovych officials from government.
Company Vitmark starts plant-based production, sales in Ukraine
Once a rarity, Ukraine’s supermarkets now come well-stocked with non-dairy milks. Local firm Vitmark launched its own plant-based milk to meet growing demand.
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This week begins with news that Ukraine’s Constitutional Court is weighing the potential to reverse a 2014 lustration law banning top officials who served under Viktor Yanukovych and oversaw the massacre of protesters during the EuroMaidan Revolution from serving in government.
In the aftermath of EuroMaidan, activists sitting on a newly-formed Lustration Committee called for Yanukovych and six other top officials to be “banned from government for life,” as the Kyiv Post reported in March 2014.
President Petro Poroshenko announced he would sign hardline lustration legislation that October, but after going into effect the law was repeatedly threatened by ill-design and questions about its constitutionality and achieved meager results.
Ukraine’s Justice Ministry took the side of the activists, blaming entrenched bureaucracy for the law’s failures.
