These are protests about hope, not about NABU

These protests are not about NABU. These protests are about hope. That the war, all the trials and losses we are going through were not in vain. And we will be able to return to the European civilized space where everyone's rights are protected and the government is accountable and controlled by the people.

It is useless to blame people for not reading the draft law. They got the gist of it. The work of anti-corruption bodies leaves much to be desired. In particular, we, human rights activists, have a lot of complaints against them. But this problem is not fixed by putting them under the control of the office.

The adopted draft law is not about NABU. It is about the future, at least as the government sees it. I will leave the motives behind, but war dictates its own logic. And this logic is the opposite of democratization. We have a rather difficult task – to pass between these two logics.