More than 20 thousand police officers were dismissed from April in Ukraine

Advisor to the head of the Ministry of internal Affairs of Ukraine Zoryan Shkiriak said that since April this year has been fired More than twenty thousand police officers.

" for the period from April From the interior Ministry fired More than twenty thousand policemen. Of these, more than 4 thousand - those who broke the oath and do not meet the " canons " employee of the police organization ", - quotes the words of Shkiriak, what he said in the broadcast.

in his words, the reforms planned in the Ministry, will make significant changes as early as 2017.

the head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko in October signed a law on lustration (about the cleansing power), which is subject to 1 million different kinds of bureaucrats, civil servants, employees of the police organization, and among them " the whole composition of the Cabinet of Ministers ".

The Minister of internal Affairs of Ukraine Arsen Avakov have said before, that the leadership of the Ministry of internal Affairs has already dismissed about 100 high position of employees of the Ministry, and among them eight generals.

The Prosecutor General of Ukraine Vitaliy Yarema believes that the law is unconstitutional and the requirements of international law. In the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation said that the law on lustration in fact legitimize political persecution in Ukraine.


Ukraine's Parliament on September 17, law on lustration - the cleansing power. According to the Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, under this legislation falls 1 million different kinds of bureaucrats, government officials, employees of the police organization, and among them " the whole Cabinet, the whole vertical of power ". Yatsenyuk ordered verification of existing members of the government and their deputies, Ministers, all Directors of the organs of Central government, who shall be appointed by the government for compliance with the law on lustration.

The lustration of power - one of the main requirements of Maidan activists in February 2014 formulated criteria for the selection of members of the " government of the people's trust ", according to which a potential candidate is not obliged to enter into the list of the hundred obespecheniya Ukrainian citizens are not obliged to take a leadership position in the Executive branch, to be an employee of the administration Under Yanukovych and to be involved in human rights violations and corruption. While the legislation of Ukraine the procedure of lustration to the last time you was not.


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