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Editorial: Zelensky just betrayed Ukraine's democracy — and everyone fighting for it (kyivindependent.com)

submitted 1 month ago by IndustryStandard@lemmy.world to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

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Last week, we warned of a coming anti-democratic backslide. Now, we see it happening.

Under the new law, the prosecutor general, a notoriously non-independent figure, will now oversee anti-corruption investigations — in a complete overturn of the system that was set up to be independent from other law enforcement bodies.

In reality, it means that Zelensky’s office will be able to stop investigations with a phone call.

It also closely follows an escalated prosecution of Ukraine’s best-known anti-corruption activist, an outspoken critic of Zelensky.

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[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 month ago (2 children)

lemmy's "general interest" instances are filled with title-only-reacting redditors and it shows.

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Hey, they also react on who post this and the source, when the same info just with way less inflammatory headline was posted by someone who is not western shill from something that isn't just CIA media front, it was like -30 votes lol.

Also, it's starting, Zelensky's getting demythologised by even western aligned media prior to his inevitable downfall. Just like us commies said long ago, but libs were frothing at mouth then.

[–] Grapho@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They're still frothing at the mouth, they're just changing targets. Libs are doing mental warmups for the incredible gymnastics they're gonna have to pull off to pretend that this was unforeseen and tAnKiEs got it all wrong anyway.

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 month ago

Libs traditionally tailing imperial media into being against every war but the current one.

[–] kamenlady@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

We have redditors among us?

True, sometimes whole threads in a heated discussion, that revolves around assumptions they have about the title.

Hold your horses, at least skim over the article, fucking redditors /s