Tag: Yehor Sobolev

Lustration was one of EuroMaidan’s social postulations. Its conduct will help restore people’s trust in the authorities. The Open Dialogue Foundation supports reforms in Ukraine by actively engaging in, amongst other things, work on the Act on Lustration.

On the 15th July 2014, together with a group of initiating deputies, Yehor Sobolev’s Lustration Committee filed with the Verhovna Rada of Ukraine an amended draft of the act on lustration review.

The Lustration Committee, headed by Yehor Sobolev, actively supported by the Open Dialogue Foundation, has developed a draft law “On the purging of the government”, which might be the legal basis for the lustration process in Ukraine.

The Open Dialogue Foundation organised a debate, accompanying the meeting of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), which was held on 24 June, 2014, in Strasbourg.

Yehor Sobolev, accompanied by representatives of the Open Dialogue Foundation – Lyudmyla Kozlovska, Anastasia Khorna and Anne Souléliac, met with French MPs, officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ukrainian community in Paris, where he talked about lustration in Ukraine.

A movement in support of lustration is gaining momentum in Ukraine. A representative of the Open Dialogue Foundation interviewed Yehor Sobolev, chairman of the lustration committee.

We want to open a comprehensive new staff recruitment process for courts, prosecutor’s offices, special services and the police, as well as all the state administration structures.

Invited by the Open Dialogue Foundation and the Institute of National Remembrance, Yehor Sobolev, Head of Ukraine’s Lustration Committee, visited Poland. During his four-day stay (4-7 June) he met with Polish MPs, government officials, journalists and Ukrainians living in Poland.

The Internet portal polskieradio.pl informs of a meeting by Yehor Sobolev, head of the Ukrainian Vetting Committee, with journalists in Warsaw. During the meeting, Sobolev outlined the vetting model, which – in his opinion – ought to be used and implemented in Ukraine.

On 1 April, 2014 at Kyiv an international conference ‘Lustration: solutions for Ukraine’ was held by the Open Dialogue Foundation.