Robert Coalson: Ukraine’s lustration process unlikely to be smooth sailing
The new government emerging in Kyiv is facing an old problem: What to do about those who worked for and supported the former government, which is now considered criminally corrupt and thoroughly infiltrated by Russian agents? Ukraine's parliament on April 8 adopted a controversial law on lustration for judges and three other similar bills are under consideration. Lustration is the practice of a new government vetting officials from a previous government for possible crimes against the people or the country. It is derived from the term for an ancient Roman purification ceremony.