Anti-anti-corruption? A bill in Ukraine sparks protests

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  The Economist.

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  I'm Rosie Bloor.

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  And I'm Jason Palmer.

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  First up, though.

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  Ukrainians are taking to the streets across the country and they are not happy.

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  Bill 12414, freshly signed by President Volodymyr Zelensky,

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  puts the country's two main independent anti-corruption agencies under the jurisdiction of the prosecutor general.

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  a Zelensky appointee.

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  Those agencies were formed after the Maidan Revolution in 2014,

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  in which President Viktor Yanukovych,

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  a stooge of Russia with notoriously sticky fingers, was booted out and fled.

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