Parliament passed a bill stripping the country's anti-corruption agencies of its independence, to the sound of applause. A week later, efforts to restore that independence would go down to the wire. "By my estimate,

By Brian Dooley and Suchita Uppal What happened and why does it matter? On July 22, Ukraine’s parliament passed Draft Law No. 12414, handing over major control over the country’s anti-corruption institutions — the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO)- to the Prosecutor General’s Office.