Exactly one year ago today, a bill to reform the national intelligence agency, the SBU, passed its first reading in the Rada, Ukraine's parliament (IO, 10/03/21). Ever since, the project driven by SBU boss Ivan Bakanov, has remained stuck at the next stage of assessments and amendments by the various parliamentary committees.
This vast overhaul of the agency, which began to introduce internal structural changes at the start of Volodymyr Zelensky's presidency, has been frequently imposed by the United
