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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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[–] davel@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is wikipedia, so it’s probably a little biased. Biased in what way is something I don’t know enough to say.

On the whole Wikipedia is biased toward capitalism & Western imperialism/neocolonialism.

The Grayzone, 2020: Meet Wikipedia’s Ayn Rand-loving founder and Wikimedia Foundation’s regime-change operative CEO

Katherine Maher has since left her Wikimedia CEO position for the NPR CEO position. She’s also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Atlantic Council, and the US State Department’s Foreign Affairs Policy Board, among other Atlantacist organizations. She used to work for the World Bank.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works -3 points 1 month ago

Nah, I meant the editors can be biased occasionally. Articles can be edited like a see saw from biased to unbiased to biased the other way, etc.