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Ukraine’s Zelenskyy introduces bill after anticorruption protests

Ukrainians protest against a law curbing independence of anticorruption institutions in Kyiv, Ukraine [Thomas Peter/Reuters]

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has submitted a new draft bill to the country’s legislature, in an effort to calm outrage over a previously passed law that critics say paves the way for corruption.

The country’s anticorruption agencies quickly hailed the bill’s introduction on Thursday, saying it would restore their “procedural powers and guarantees of independence”.

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