Road blockage and pickets at the Cabinet of Ministers: The outcome of the amalgamated communities’ formation in Ukraine

In July, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine should adopt a decision on holding local elections. In order for such elections to take place local governments and the central government have been actively working for several months on approval of prospective plans for amalgamation of territorial communities and establishment of boundaries of administrative and territorial units. Therefore, the process of amalgamation of territorial communities, which began in 2015, was completed in June 2020.

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Conflicts between central and local authorities: what are the consequences for the state?

It became clear long before the open speeches of mayors in March that relations between the central government on the one hand and local government on the other were not simple. At the briefing, dedicated to the year of the presidency, Volodymyr Zelensky announced it publicly.

Over the past few months, the tension between central and local authorities has obtained the highest scale. Why did the mayors start openly oppose the presidential and government decisions? What can this situation lead to in autumn during local elections and how does it threaten Ukraine’s integrity and state system? Experts from the Center for Security Studies “CENSS” have analyzed how relations between local and central authorities have developed over the past year.

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Against medical observation, markets closure, medical reform, public transportation restrictions: analysis of protest actions during quarantine

For the second month already, Ukraine has been living in a regime of continuous restrictions: public transportation is not available, markets and shopping centers do not work, and groups of more than two people are not allowed to walk in the street. However, such restrictions force many people not to stay at home at such a dangerous time, but on the contrary, to go out. Analysts of the Center for Security Studies “CENSS” analyzed the protest actions that took place in different cities of Ukraine. In general, according to the monitoring data, almost 70 protest actions took place all over Ukraine during the quarantine. Most of them took place in Chernivtsi, Dnipropetrovsk, Kyiv, Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia Oblasts, as well as in Kyiv. Детальніше

Offenses involving the use of weapons during the quarantine period, increased activities of organized groups: results of another round of CENSS study

The Center for Security Studies “CENSS” continues to monitor the situation with illegal trafficking and the use of weapons in Ukraine. The study, presented in February 2020, provided the basis for further identification of the main tendencies and indicators showing the state of illegal trafficking and the use of weapons.

In this article we publish some of the results of our study concerning certain tendencies that have been observed in this sphere taking into account their relevance and expected impact on the state of illegal trafficking and the use of weapons in the future.

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CENSS presented the results of the study “Illegal trafficking and use of weapons in Ukraine”

Center for Security Studies “CENSS” presented the results of the analytical study on illegal trafficking of weapons to international partners of Ukraine from foreign embassies and international organizations.

We publish the main results of an analytical study conducted in the period from September 2019 till January 2020 to identify the main tendencies and signs that indicate the state of illegal trafficking and use of weapons.

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