📊 BY THE NUMBERS 400+ figures now scored 25 regional mayors added — researched individually, none assigned defaults 391 Verkhovna Rada members now represented 11 category tabs for faster navigation 19 figures in Critical band 42 figures in High band 🗂 NEW INTERFACE "All Figures" tab now shows only Moderate → Critical. Low-band figures accessible through category tabs and search. Signal separated from baseline noise. No scrolling through 500 entries to find a minister. 👁 WHO IS READING THIS Staff at Transparency International. Members of Ukraine's Cabinet of Ministers. Verkhovna Rada staff. They reached out — sometimes to offer corrections, sometimes to dispute scores, sometimes simply to confirm they'd seen it. Several figures on the index have expressed discomfort through intermediaries. Discomfort is not the same as inaccuracy. The correction channel is open.
American investors and policy makers call it "the first real due diligence tool for Ukraine" and "what Moody's would build if Moody's cared about corruption rather than just credit. " Rada committee staff have requested the full change log. We publish it every month. Transparency is not a courtesy. It's the operating condition. 📡 NEW: TELEGRAM MONITORING Telegram is to Ukrainian political intelligence what drones are to modern warfare — cheap to deploy, nearly impossible to intercept at scale, brutally effective when aimed with precision. Starting June 2026, Smart Times publishes a monthly Telegram Channel Reliability Index alongside the CRI: ranked assessment of the most consequential Ukrainian political channels, scored by source access, factual accuracy rate, and identifiable political or financial affiliation. Rule: no score moves on a Telegram post alone. Every claim must be corroborated by at least one independent evidence stream.
What monitoring does is make the index faster — hours, not days. 📅 JUNE PREVIEW → Score updates on all figures with active proceedings → First Telegram Channel Reliability Index → Expanded oblast military administration coverage → Deeper NAZK asset declaration integration → Score alert function in development — notifies when a figure crosses a band threshold The index is read in Washington, Brussels, London, Kyiv — and in several offices where the subjects would prefer it wasn't. We take that as the most reliable indicator the methodology is working. smarttimes.net/corruption-score/ukraine
