page_title: Lustration in Ukraine
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Lustration in Ukraine / History
caption_attribution_description: Українська: Пам'ятник «Меч справедливості» у Броварах, Київська область, Україна. Встановили активісти місцевого «Люстраційного комітету». Відкрили 19 травня 2014 року на постаменті від знесеного під час Євромайдану пам'ятника Володимиру Леніну. 7 липня 2014 року його знесли комунальні служби Броварів. Пам'ятник символізував люстрацію влади та боротьбу з корупцією. English: Monument "Sword of Justice" in Brovary, Kiev Oblast, Ukraine. Installed by activists of local "Lustration Committee". Monument was open on May 19, 2004 on the pedestal of demolished during Euromaidan monument of Vladimir Lenin. On July 7, 2014 it was demolished by official municipal service of Brovary. The monument symbolized lustration and the fight against corruption.
context_page_description: Lustration in Ukraine refers to the removal from public office of civil servants who served under Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych. This measure was initiated under president Petro Poroshenko, after Yanukovich was deposed in the 2014 Ukrainian Revolution. This lustration also applies to civil servants who were active in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union prior to 1991. A 2019 proposal by the newly elected president Volodymyr Zelensky would expand the lustration to the officials who served under Poroshenko.
  The name "lustration" alludes to similar purges of civil servants that took place in Eastern Europe following the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The exclusion from service is set to a term of five to ten years.
context_section_description: Lustration was one of the demands of the Euromaidan-protestors. The Euromaidan-protests started in November 2013 and ended with the 22 February 2014 removal of office of President Viktor Yanukovych. On 26 February 2014, Ehor Sobolev was nominated to lead the "Committee on Lustration" in the new Yatsenyuk Government. On 14 August 2014, the Ukrainian parliament adopted a bill on government lustration that introduced "procedures for conducting checks of government officials and people nominated for government position with the purpose of deciding whether they meet certain criteria for occupying relevant post". The bill was passed with the support of 252 out of 450 MPs. On 16 September 2014 the Ukrainian parliament at the third reading adopted the law on lustration and thus finally passed the bill that took effect on 16 October 2014. The head of the working group which finalized the bill on lustration, Yuriy Derevianko, said that the adopted document differed from the bill considered by the parliament at first reading.
  The first lustration wave, in October 2014, resulted in the removal of 39 high-ranking officials. By mid-September 2015 700 officials were lustrated/fired.
caption: Monument "Sword of Justice" in Brovary symbolized lustration and the fight against corruption in a city
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