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🔈 Judge of Maidan Marina Shakhovnina may receive the post for life
The High Council of Justice today is considering the High Qualification Commission of Judges' recommendation to appoint Marina Shakhovnina indefinitely as a judge of the Podilsky District Court of Kyiv.
Shakhovnina has worked at the Podilsky Court since 2012. In the winter of 2014, at the height of the Revolution of Dignity, she, in at least three cases, deprived protest participants of their driver’s licenses for three months.
The most illustrative case is that of Serhiy Sesyk. 24 January 2014 he was punished for allegedly failing to comply with a police order to stop. Various license plates appeared in the protocol, there was no evidence of who was driving, and the hearing, according to StopCor, took place without the driver himself. It later emerged that the report had been falsified.
Before the High Qualification Commission, Judge Shakhovnina explained that she supposedly considered these cases “ordinary traffic violations” and knew nothing about the drivers’ participation in the protests.
In the integrity declaration for the year 2016 Shakhovnina “forgot” to mention issuing decisions in Maidan cases. The High Qualification Commission already, in 2018, found the information she submitted to be unreliable. At that time the High Council of Justice refused to sanction her: the situation was called a “mistake.”
On 20 October 2025 the Civic Integrity Council determined that the judge does not meet the criteria of integrity and ethics. Besides the Maidan cases and declarations, the conclusion mentions:
✔️untimely declaration of real estate;
✔️questions regarding the lustration check;
✔️circumstances of her election as head of the district court;
✔️similarity of fragments of her dissertation 2020 with the work of another author.
But the plenary composition of the High Qualification Commission considered her fit for the position: 11 votes “for,” 4 “against.”
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