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Ukrainian judge and public official, current member of the High Qualification Commission of Judges of Ukraine (since June 2023)

In 2001, he graduated from the Faculty of Law at Ivan Franko National University of Lviv. He has over 20 years of experience in the judiciary system: he progressed from an employee of the Legal Expertise Department and scientific consultant to a judge of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine to advisor to the chairperson of the HQCJ of Ukraine. Since 2012, he has held the position of judge of the Commercial Court of Lviv Region, from which he was delegated by the High Council of Justice to the renewed composition of the Commission.

Declarations and integrity

In the media space and among civil society organizations, the official has appeared due to criticism by the Public Integrity Council (PIC). In 2024–2025, Kydysiuk, together with some colleagues, was accused of attempts to approve judges with questionable reputations bypassing the agreed procedures of analysis by the PIC. Investigative journalists also drew attention to his asset declarations. In particular, there were mentions of receiving an official apartment in an elite district of Kyiv (Obolon) during his work in the HQCJ apparatus, the family’s ownership of four apartments, three cars, as well as maintaining significant amounts of foreign currency and gold bars.

Publications about the person

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New competition for the Supreme Court: when impunity breeds permissiveness or the storming of the Supreme Court ⚠️ Do you remember the loud scandal of “raimovshchyna,” when certain members of the High Qualification Commission of Judges and the High Council of Justice successfully pushed themselves, their relatives, and close associates into the appellate courts? Back then the system swallowed it, and the organizers got away with everything. But the laws of corrupt psychology are relentless: if t...

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Are chairs more important than reputation? Why the “Raimov affair” case requires the resignation of members of the HQCJ For more than a year civil society and journalists have been sounding the alarm about obvious signs of nepotism and cronyism during the competition for appellate courts. This story has already been given a telling name — the “Raimov affair,” after Ruslan Raimov, assistant and inspector to the head of the HQCJ Andriy Pasichnyk. Everyone knew about the flagrant conflict of intere...

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“My mother-in-law gave me 100 thousand dollars”: the VKKS panel believed the judge who explained expensive purchases as a gift from relatives Panel No.2 of the High Qualification Commission of Judges, based on the interview results, found Darnytskyi District Court judge Olena Rudyk capable of administering justice in the Kyiv Court of Appeal. We addressed the VKKS panel composed of Liudmyla Volkova, Roman Kydysiuk, and Ruslan Sydorovych with a whole list of questions about the judge, but most of...

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The wife of the Deputy Chair of the HQCJ successfully passed the HQCJ interview for the Kyiv Court of Appeal We have another “unexpected” result from the personnel selection for a judge’s position. The HQCJ panel No.2 (Lyudmyla Volkova, Roman Kydysiuk, Ruslan Sydorovych) found Halyna Koliush to have confirmed her ability to administer justice in an appellate court. With a result of 723 points she took a decisive step toward the position of judge of the Kyiv Court of Appeal. This candidate is the...

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The judge who tried to annul the suspicion against a defendant in the NABU case involving 1,8 billion UAH has been given a “green light” by the HQCJ collegium to the Kyiv Appeal Court Collegium No. 2 of the High Qualification Commission of Judges continues to form the future composition of the Kyiv Court of Appeal. In particular, the members of the collegium gave a high score to Judge Dmytro Kratko (in the photo) and forwarded the question of confirming his ability to administer justice in the a...