Severodonetsk prosecutor drove journalists out from the press conference

The press conference of the coordination council of the law-enforcing organs hold in the prosecutor’s office lasted for 5 minutes. This may be regarded as a new record of the duration of such meetings in Ukraine. The press conference was conducted after the end of the meeting of the heads of the town law-enforcing organs, which was conducted in the prosecutor’s office. Town mayor V. Gritsyshin, town prosecutor V. Glagovskiy and the heads of all law-enforcing organs took part in the meeting. The journalists stood in the corridor for 45 minutes before they were let in. However, in the room they also had no places to sit down, they were lined along the wall, and the officials asked them to introduce themselves. The third journalist, who introduced himself, was a journalist of the editions of the Voters’ committee of Ukraine „ zoru“ and „ Ukraina“, which fact arose the interests of V. Gritsyshin. „ did you invited?“, he asked the prosecutor strictly, and the introduction of the journalists ended. „ that we met. And if somebody needs information, phone to me and we will give you the information“ After this the journalists were proposed to leave the office.

According to our data, the journalists were invited to the press conference in pursuance of the President’s Decree „ the additional measures for guaranteeing the transparency of the activities of the organs of state power“, which reads: „ heads of central and local organs of the executive power must conduct regular press conferences with the schedule made public beforehand , as well as answer regularly the questions of citizens in mass media“