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INTERNATIONAL LAW AND FOREIGN LEGISLATION CORRUPTION AND POLITICAL CRISIS IN UKRAINE DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14420/en.2014.1.7
Alexei Ivanov, Candidate for a Master’s Degree of Jurisprudence of the International Institute of State Service and Administration of Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, e-mail: alexnika3@gmail.com. Ivan Bogun, Bachelor of Jurisprudence at National Juridical Academy of Ukraine named after Yaroslav the Wise. Abstract.
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The article reviews issues of corruption and political crisis in Ukraine in the context of international organisations reports that estimate corruption levels and entrepreneurial climate worldwide. The article examines countries of the European Union and member states of the Customs Union, asseses the political crisis in Ukraine. corruption, Ukraine, politics, member states of the European Union, member states of the Customs Union, legislation, crisis.
With its tentacles сorruption embraced all spheres of public administration in Ukraine, affected all branches of Ukrainian national authorities, and constituted a principal source of political crisis in the county. We can only suppose how Ukrainian society would have responded the decision to stop Euro-integration and redirect the development vector towards the Customs Union, granted the state had been strictly observing the constitutional law, freedoms and guarantees. What would have happened, if the same change occurred under condition that independent courts were functioning normally, the state were performing effective political housecleaning (instead of just making show), carrying out anti-corruption foreign and domestic policy and providing for a favourable entrepreneurial environment?! Indeed, can the states held together by bonds of customs agreements boast of having healthy, transparent economics or of being «corruption free»? We have reasons to believe that Ukraine’s refusal to sign an agreement about association with the European Union was a mere pretext! We drew this conclusion on the basis of analysing the situation in Ukraine after 2010, i.e. after Yanukovich came to power. For this purpose we used analytic and statistical data received in Ukraine and in other countries. We studied reports of international organisations that give appraisals of corruption levels, anti-corruption policies, and conditions for developing entrepreneurial business for countries all over the world. For comparative examination there were chosen states and republics that are member