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Daria Kaleniuk

Daria Kaleniuk is co-founder and executive director of the Anti-Corruption Action Centre, a powerful national organisation that has shaped Ukraine's anti-corruption and judicial reforms. Daria holds an LL.M. in Financial Services Law from Chicago-Kent College of Law. In 2023, she was included in TIME100 Next. She is a member of the Young Global Leaders, Munich Young Leaders, and EYL40 networks. Since Russia's full-scale invasion in 2022, she co-founded the International Centre of Ukrainian Victory (ICUV).

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End of Ukraine's 'untouchables'? Zelensky faces final choice for Ukraine's anti-corruption future

by Daria Kaleniuk
Corruption is back at the top of the news in Ukraine, and that is not necessarily a bad thing. The latest accusations against Andriy Yermak, the former Head of the Presidential Office, do not indicate an increase in corruption, as naysayers claim. This achievement is a remarkable victory for the autonomous anti-corruption architecture that we have carefully built since the 2014 Revolution of Dignity. Andriy Yermak was neither a normal high-ranking bureaucrat nor a regular official. He was the