Post-Soviet Lustrations: the Baltics, Georgia and Ukraine.

• In Event: Lustrations in the Post-Communist States: Past, Present or Future

Abstract

Specific features of post-Soviet transition of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania that facilitated reforms, including lustration. Georgia: lustration as an essential part of anticorruption reforms of Mikheil Saakashvili. Ukraine: The 2014 Laws On Restoring Confidence in the Judicial System and On Government Cleansing. Why Boris Yeltsyn decided not to carry out lustrations.

Author

• Ekaterina Mishina, U of Michigan