The bill would make it easier to fire the chief of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) and allow people associated with political parties to head the bureau. The legislation has been criticized by Ukrainian anti-corruption watchdogs and G7 countries. The scrapping of the draft law was first announced by Yaroslav Zhelezniak, an MP from the Holos party, and later confirmed by a source from the ruling Servant of the People Party.
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The new law provides compensation for material and moral damages incurred by victims of deportation and their descendants.
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