Automatically translated version. May contain inaccuracies compared to the original.
Former HRC member Halynka Chyzhyk interviewed the likewise “former,” but now vice-speaker, Oksana Syroyid.
👉Oksana Syroyid is also known for the fact that it was she who in 2014 year brought the odious pseudo-expert Mykhailo Zhernakov into the grant crowd, whom the legal community knows as Misha Z.
‼️But so far we have not seen comments from Zhernakov or his foundation “De-jure” on the points raised by Oksana Syroyid.
About the HRC and civic councils:
“As the person who came up with it, I believe that the Public Integrity Council should be abolished. In general, I believe that all civic councils should be abolished.
In fact, even before the HRC, Yanukovych created all the civic councils—a sort of “court” public. If you want to fight corruption, you don’t need a public anti-corruption council at the Ministry of Defense—go to the Ministry of Defense and fight. If you want to be involved in selecting judges—apply to be a member of the High Qualification Commission of Judges or become a judge, go through the whole process, suffer through it.
But few people are ready to suffer that way—it’s much easier to sit in some room and hound those you don’t like.”
Or:
“The thing is, when you create a non-institutional tool that has no accountability but can interfere in processes, there will always be those who want to abuse it.
An institution must have authority and accountability: something that sits on the sidelines and makes claims without bearing responsibility cannot be called an institution.
Responsibility can exist only to the one who creates the body. The Public Integrity Council is created by the public. But the public cannot be institutional. We cannot put Maidan into the Constitution.”
And one more point:
“Bringing foreign experts into the process is a way of shifting responsibility away from ourselves. It’s infantilism and a feeling of inferiority. Like, look, they’re beating me, I’m a little girl. I won’t deal with it myself—I’ll go get the ‘big uncle,’ bring him, and he’ll hand everything out for me. Because I’m little. This is a losing position. You will never grow up as long as you keep dragging along the ‘big uncle’ who has to decide everything for you. At some point you have to say: I’m grown up and I take responsibility on myself.
Don’t think that in Europe or America people are born virtuous, and here we are completely depraved.”
‼️Why have the odious Zhernakov and his henchmen from “De-jure” still not shared their “thoughts” about these words of Oksana Syroyid? Not a single little video with comments on YouTube.
Strange: for grant-seekers Syroyid’s authority cannot be questioned, but in order to keep cutting grants, they will apparently remain silent about perfectly reasonable judgments and continue to impose their corrupt model with international experts and all kinds of HRCs.
💯Their motivation is not connected to reforms or improvement, but exclusively to money and an established means of obtaining it through all sorts of pseudo-reforms. This is more obvious than obvious. And it has nothing to do with their favorite word “integrity.”