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Only 20% of the political news on TVi in May was presented from several points of view, as opposed to 44% in April, with an unprecedented reduction in balance on TVi, up till 23 April seen as the most independent TV channel in Ukraine 
On 11 June a team of well-known journalists announced the creation of Hromadskie.TV, a public broadcasting Internet initiative based on the principles of transparency and total independence 
The assailants demanded that Georgy Erman chant some nationalist slogans while they videoed it, and threatened him for having, as they claimed, insulted nationalists in his articles 
Students and public sector workers complain that they are being forced to take part in political meetings. This, according to the Committee of Voters of Ukraine [CVU] can only be considered use of administrative resource 
On Journalist Day the Institute of Mass Information and Independent Media Trade Union published their list of Press Enemies. With the Prime Minister and President top enemies, the Interior Minister and Prosecutor General were not far behind, as well as Mykola Knyazhytsky for his position recently over the seizure of TVi 
On the eve of Journalist Day, 6 June, human rights organizations have issued a statement expressing concern over the escalating assault on freedom of expression and reduction of other fundamental freedoms in Ukraine. 
The results of surveys carried out by the Democratic Initiatives Foundation and Razumkov Centre on the eve of Journalist Day make grim reading – both for those in power, and all concerned with freedom of speech in Ukraine 
Four members of the Democratic Alliance party holding a banner reading "Yanukovych get out of Kyiv" were detained on Monday for a peaceful protest on the route taken by President Yanukovych’s cortege. 
The Newspaper Kommersant Ukraine reports that the Kyiv Police took very modest disciplinary measures against 15 police officers over inaction on 18 May, including when a woman journalist and photographer were attacked by thugs while the police looked on 
Ukrainska Pravda reports that a London court has prohibited the new owner of TVi, the English firm Credit Investbank plc from carrying out any actions with the shares of the television channel. 
In Brovary (Kyiv oblast) Andriy Kachor, journalist from the website “You have the Right to Know”, was beaten up during a protest at the Peremoha [Victory] Park. 
The government can’t get anything right. On Wednesday Prime Minister Azarov threw out women journalists trying through a totally peaceful protest to remind him that it could be his wife or daughter who gets attracked with the police watching on and doing nothing, as happened with their colleague Olha Snitsarchuk 
With journalist Olha Snitsarchuk able to identify her assailant on Saturday and explain exactly how the police simply watched, despite repeated calls for help, Interior Minister Zakharchenko could not come out looking good. He did not need to make himself and the police look even worse. 
Over 150 journalists held a protest on Monday following the attack on Olha Snitsarchuk and Vladyslav Sodel on Saturday by so-called antifascists öðøñð took place in full view of police officers who did not intervene despite being asked for help (and clearly needing it). 
Those who orchestrated the recent hatchet-job on TVi probably counted on demoralization and division within the channel and beyond. They may have misfired 
2012 saw a record 324 recorded violations of journalists’ rights, with this being the largest number over the last 10 years. Only some 5% of those responsible face any penalties 
On 3 May 2013, Press Freedom Day, Ukraine came in for some well-earned and damning criticism and the US Helsinki Commission called for a proper investigation into the murder of Volodymyr Honcharenko, well-known environmentalist and editor of an environmental newspaper. 
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