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UK will train Ukrainian judges that will be tolerant to neo-Nazis
Written by Ahmed Adel, Cairo-based geopolitics and political economy researcher
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a law to abolish the Kiev District Administrative Court, a court which had no hesitation in prosecuting neo-Nazis. Zelensky also boasted that he is a leader who fights corruption internally whilst also fighting Russian troops. However, it appears that this latest scheme is a way for the British to dominate Ukraine’s judicial system.
“The history of reforms continues. Even in times of war,” Zelensky said on December 14 after announcing the end of the Kiev District Administrative Court, chaired by Pavlo Vovk, a judge that the White House had its sights on for a long time already.
The US Department of State, in a report titled Combating Global Corruption and Human Rights Abuses, published a list of sanctioned people and organisations, in which the name of Pavlo Vovk appears, among many others. It is not lost that the report was published only a few days before the Ukrainian president announced the end of the Kiev District Administrative Court.
The State Department accuses the Ukrainian judge of “soliciting bribes in return for interfering in judicial and other public processes. As part of this action, two immediate family members are also designated.”
Vovk was the president of the Kiev District Administrative Court, a body that since April 2021 has attempted to liquidate the Zelensky government through a parliamentary process that had been blocked for months. In this light, The Kyiv Independent newspaper describes Vovk as “Ukraine’s most scandalous judge”.
The Biden Administration has not explained anything else about why it sanctioned this judge, whom the National Anti-Corruption Office of Ukraine accused of various crimes associated with corruption. Four other judges from the same court, in which two were close to Vovk, were also named.
Vovk was appointed to the court by the former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych (2010-2014), who was deposed in a coup eight years ago following Maidan. At that time, the Court insisted on the illegality of the opposition to Yanukovych.
Just as importantly, the now defunct Kiev District Administrative Court was the authority that repeatedly prohibited the propagation of Nazi and neo-Nazi symbols and support in Ukraine. In June 2019, the court ordered Kiev City Council to change the name of two important streets, which since 2016 had been named after two prominent Ukrainian Nazi collaborators, Stepan Bandera and Roman Shukhevych.
In May 2020, the Kiev District Administrative Court prohibited the symbols of the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician), a Nazi formation that was made up predominantly of Ukrainian military volunteers from the Galicia region.
The Ukrainian organisation Dejure Foundation – which received financial awards in 2021 from the United Kingdom, a country that has sent millions of dollars in weapons to Ukraine already – says that “some of the decisions” by the Court “are openly pro-Russian, which threatens national security and effective attempts to counter Russian influence.”
Seemingly not satisfied with providing vast finances, weapons, and aid to Ukraine, now the UK has also promised to train Ukrainian judges in the hope of later prosecuting Russians for alleged war crimes.
“These 90 judges will go back after some really intensive training, able better to run those courts,” UK Attorney General Victoria Prentis told Sky News, adding that she will ensure potential trials are conducted “at an unprecedented scale” while the conflict continues.
According to the British media outlet, the first group of magistrates attended sessions in a secret location in Eastern Europe in early December. Over the next few months, more meetings will take place thanks to an investment of £2,500,000.
Zelensky and his wife Olena, who visited the UK in late November, have been advocating the establishment of a special court for Ukraine, which they have disingenuously compared to the Nuremberg trials. In this regard, Prentis said that all options are being considered with the Ukrainian authorities.
However, the Ukrainian president’s proposal has not been explicitly endorsed by the British government.
“But I’m also sure the international community will want to have a moment where justice is done, and seen to be done. We don’t yet know exactly what form that will take. All options are on the table,” said the Attorney General.
At the same time, the abolishment of the Kiev District Administrative Court occurs at a time when the EU is demanding that Ukraine, if it wants to become a member of the bloc, must carry out a series of political and administrative reforms to end corruption. Before the conflict broke out on February 24, according to data from liberal institutions like the Transparency International, Ukraine was the second most corrupt country in Europe.
It is unsurprising though that the “corruption” being purged only ended up being the only court willing to prosecute neo-Nazism in Ukraine. Now it appears that the UK is wanting to deepen its influence in the Ukrainian judicial system by training judges, judges which will inevitably tolerate neo-Nazism, unlike the court that Zelensky abolished.
Zelensky should instead target racism and inequality.
Racism is the ideology and inequality the base of society that the people in ukraine have choosen.
I didnt know Zelensky was a racist, and I havent seen Zelensky sit in some palace like poo tin.
There are definitely racists in Ukraine, and I encourage you to kill those fuckers, but what makes Zelensky more racist than any other Human Being?
The UK is wanting to deepen its influence in the Ukrainian judicial system by training judges, judges which will inevitably tolerate neo-Nazism (although claimed non-existing..) and to make sure that these judges are being trained in the highest levels of anti-Russian ”’justice”” possible to be applied ..
Bakhmut fosa común de ukronazis, polacos y perros ingleses!
Zionism = Nazism = the natural conclusion 💩🇮🇱💩
Your Logic is ‘un-natural’.
Appears UK trying to set up judges as legislators of law by the judicial process imposing a branch of UK government in Ukraine .
The bastards are turning whats left of Ukraine into a full blown Nazi state,as for the courts they will fill them with Judge Roland Freisler types,that criminal Regime has to be destroyed nothing less is an option,but i blame many Ukrainians for allowing themselves to be seduced by the Ghost of Bandera and that evil credo.
napkins credo deserves a Nazi or Samurai or Islamist response.
These CLOWNS are fighting and dying for Neocons and their dual passport holding oligarchs. They’ve played a cynical game thinking that they’d actually gain power at some time in the future. The Bandarist commanders are in on the swindle of aid money and stolen weapons while the low IQ retard regulars get blown to shit. In the end these jackasses will be kicked into the dirt and thrown away like an old cum rag… Bye bye
It’s a sad state of affairs, but the Ukretards have been brainwashed and they’re going to die.
@Clyde
Well arrogant man, think twice. This whole war shit would not function at all, had only one so-called “side” been brainwashed. No, it’s both ! Look at yourself, you too have been completely brainwashed not realizing the old jew game, who always finance and brainwash BOTH sides, in order to get otherwise peaceful friendly people to murder each other, so that they (the jews) can make great benefit (shekels, shekels) from it resp. the ignited bloodshed. Wake up man, before it’s too late !
And listen to what Ex-KGB agent Bezmenov said around 1984, although he speaks mainly on the techniques which they apply aginst “the West”, warning that:
If Americans fail to grasp the impending danger, he said, “nothing ever can help the United States.”
“You may kiss goodbye to your freedom.”
he also speaks a lot about how the brainwashing process goes and gives more info which directly addresses guys like you, Clyde.
See:
How do you incubate a mind virus? How do you cause a culture to self-destruct?
In 1984, this KGB defector exposed the secret 4-stage plan used by Soviet intelligence to wage psychological war on American society.
Stage 1: Demoralization. (15-20 years)
Part1 https://twitter.com/i/status/1596146675021762562
Part2 https://twitter.com/i/status/1596147839016620033
Part3 https://twitter.com/i/status/1596148336997842945
Part4 https://twitter.com/i/status/1596148873143238656
@Putin’s empty nutsack
As both sides are controlled by jews, calling their ideological preference eighter zionism, talmudism, judaism, bolshevism, communism, maoism, or neoliberal, democratic or global-technocrat, it is just different named versions, resp. different names for the very same thing – its all jewish-SATANISM. And who ever follows these hook-nosed demons is going directly to hell !
UK? Tell us about JULIAN ASSANGE. Go figure, them are training magistrates!
One only has to read the British tabloid press including the Guardian & BBC to know that British courts are run by lawyers, barristers and judges paid by and acting on behalf of the regime at No 10 Downing St, all without exception are politicians in ropes and gowns, we are not even talking about 🐖 shops passing on their politicised police reports to the highest bidder, the British authorities are so corrupt it’s for everyone plain to see!