22.03.13 | Road Control journalist on worrying criminal charge
Andriy Dzindzy from the civic watchdog which monitors drivers' rights is facing a charge of hooliganism over an incident reported here where he appeared to be set upon by people at an allegedly illegal private car impoundment site
22.03.13 | Express newspaper upheld in wanting to know who shot at them
The court has revoked the fifteenth refusal by the police to initiate a criminal investigation over the occasion when the Express newspaper office came under gunfire.
20.03.13 | Keeping TV Business all in the Family?
Citing its own sources, Telekritika reports that Ruslan Demchak, the owner of the Ukrainian Business Group (UBG) has sold the TV channel Business to Deputy Prime Minister Serhiy Arbuzov
19.03.13 | Bleak statistics for media censorship and political pressure
The Institute for Mass Information reports that in February there were 14 cases where journalists were obstructed in carrying out their professional activities. 6 cases of censorship were also recorded and 5 cases of political pressure and law suits against media publications and journalists
18.03.13 | Noticeable increase in dodgy news on TV during February
In February the regular monitoring of TV coverage of socio-political issues found an increase in material which suggested it had been commissioned (or censored) as well as of cases where information of public importance was muffled
15.03.13 | UNIAN scandal reaps one positive benefit
According to Institute for Mass Information monitoring, February saw a marked increase in adherence to journalist standards by the UNIAN information agency.
08.03.13 | Firtash and Lyovochkin's Inter rejects balanced coverage safeguards
Inter has decided to dissolve the Public Council established to monitor observance of journalist standards. This follows staff and programme changes which may be aimed at improving rating, but hardly the channel's balance and objectivity
06.03.13 | TV Channels grossly violate journalist standards in coverage of Tymoshenko murder charges
While State-owned UTV-1's coverage was predictably the worst, Inter had shown a sharp improvement. This, judging by the latest events seems unlikely to continue
05.03.13 | UNIAN management takes responsibility for fake opposition statements
A statement issued on Monday says that management, staff and the main owner have agreed on ways of resolving recent problems and that the management have taken responsibility for the news items at the centre of the latest conflict
27.02.13 | New Defence Minister flexes muscles in defamation suit
The latest defamation suit lodged by a public official is a whopper: Pavlo Lebedev, recently appointed Defence Minister is demanding $10 thousand from a journalist, and that the court restrict her movements and freeze her immoveable assets.

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