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Nikolayev branch of “Privatbank” handed a claim against the newspaper “Ridne Pribuzhzhia”

Okhtyrka town court (the Sumy oblast) decided to satisfy the claim of Mirgorod mayor Oleksandr Pautov against Viktor Kozoriz, the editor of the opposition newspaper “Mirgorodska Pravda”

Brovary town court (the Kyiv oblast) partly satisfied the claim of the Brovary town council against the newspaper “Brovarskiy kuryer”

Claims of Viktor Medvedchuk against Sergiy Ratushniak and the newspaper “Silski visti”

Claim of the Ministry of Transport of Ukraine against the newspaper “Vechernie visti”

Statistics of claims against mass media in the Lugansk oblast

The Supreme Court satisfied the cassation of Yulia Timoshenko connected with her suit against the National TV company and the feature “Kazna derzhavy”

Viktor Medvedchuk vs. Dmytro Chobit

Dnepropetrovsk law-enforcers against mass media

Dnepropetrovsk oblast organization of the Rukh will have legal proceedings with the local edition “Populiarnaya gazeta LUXE"

Pikhovshek apologized to MPs

Lviv mayor Lubomir Buniak must apologize to “Ekspress”

Cherkassy weekly “Antenna” against the town directorate for fighting the organized crime

Claim of Mirgorod mayor O. Pautov against the newspaper “Mirgorodska Pravda” and the editor of the newspaper

Claim of the special militia department of the Lugansk oblast against the head of the Lugansk oblast public organization “Postup” and the weekly “Vecherniy Lugansk”

Claim against Nina Ptashkina, the author of the article about bribe-takers

In what follows we are presenting the comment of Yuri Denisov, a lawyer of the center for monitoring of the freedom of speech, which works in the oblast with the support of the International foundation “Vidrodjennia”

Distrainment of property of the Kirovograd TV company “TTV”

Court satisfied the claim of IASM and I. Slisarenko against the magazine “Korrespondent”, which accused the plaintiffs of racism and anti-Semitism

Shevchenkivskiy district court of Kyiv satisfied the claims of MPs Vasyl Onopenko and Mykhaylo Pavlovskiy against the TV channel “1+1” and Vyacheslav Pikhovshek

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