UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said Friday that a new UN report produced by her 34-strong monitoring team in Ukraine shows "an alarming deterioration in the human rights situation in the east of the country, as well as serious problems emerging in Crimea, especially in relation to the Crimean Tatars."

While Ukraine's dramatic and, in a lot of cases, tragic change events have captivated the minds and hearts of people within the country and beyond its borders, there are more subtle battles raging within the state's governance systems.

Civic expert assessment is as a policy tool that is being implemented for approximately five years. At the practical level, it has positive experiences but also encounters with a number of problems and ambiguities when applied both by public authorities and civil society organizations.

As the United Nations Security Council convened its second urgent session this week on the situation in Ukraine, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon reiterated his grave concern over the rising tensions in the country's east and south, particularly events in the crisis-gripped city of Slovyansk, where two Ukrainian military helicopters were shot down overnight and a group of European observes captured on 26 April remains in detention.

Experts of NGO "Ecoclub", Resource analytical centre "Society and Environment", National Environmental Centre of Ukraine, International charitable organization "Ecology-Law-Human Being", WWF, and NGO "Bureau for environmental investigations" agreed to take part in environmental platform of Reanimation package of reforms. The top priority initiative of the environmental platform is to launch functional assessment of environmental impact.

How do you overcome the government inertia for change in such a tough field as corruption prevention and make sure that the usual "go-through-the-motion" is replaced by reformative locomotion?