All computer and other technology belonging to the opposition TV Chornomorska has been arrested after federal bailiffs appeared on Friday morning. The speed with which a court order was carried out and the fact that the channel has been left unable to work fuel suspicions that the move is aimed at silencing an independent television channel.

In yet another unpleasant echo of Soviet times, two Crimean Tatar newspapers – ‘Avdet’ and ‘Kyyrym’ - have been ‘denounced’ for allegedly ‘circulating extremist material’

Bianka Zalewska, a Polish journalist working for the Ukrainian channel Espreso TV received serious injuries on Sunday near Starobielsk in the Luhansk oblast. She has been moved to a hospital in Kharkiv

Russia, together with its occupation regime in the Crimea, clearly defends only the “right” of Kremlin-backed militants to raise Russian flags. In other cases, as with a peaceful protest in Yalta involving a Ukrainian flag, the full repressive weight of Russian law is invoked.

The journalists, now released, had been trying to establish whether the bodies of those killed in the Malaysian MH17 disaster had been brought to the morgue. The militants are believed to have shot down the plane and are now seriously hampering the investigation and recovery of bodies

Yevhen Aharkov, journalist for TV 2+2’s Special Correspondent programme was detained by Russian Federal Migration in his hotel in Rostov where Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda [Nadya] Savchenko is being held in detention. The migration authorities accuse him of something they call “illegal journalist activities”

Ukraine’s TV and Radio Broadcasting Council has warned that it will seek to have providers’ licences revoked via the courts if they continue to broadcast certain Russian channels known for their extremely biased and often untruthful coverage of events in Ukraine

On July 2 a Channel 5 film crew came under attack on Maidan with a cameraman injured. This was not the first time that journalists have faced aggression on self-defence and others who did not leave after the EuroMaidan protests

Nastya [Anastasia] Stanko and cameraman Illya Bezkorovainy were released ‘live’ on Russian TV LifeNews on Wednesday evening. Their refusal to speak with Russian journalists can easily be understood seeing a previous LifeNews ‘report’ on their seizure by Kremlin-backed militants

A Forbes Russia journalist who was close by when Russian TV 1, or Pervy Kanal, correspondent Anatoly Klyan was killed on Sunday evening, has suggested the real role assigned journalists on that fatal trip. They were taken there to come under fire.

Journalist Nastya [Anastasia] Stanko and a sound engineer have been taken prisoner by Kremlin-backed militants from the self-proclaimed Luhansk People’s Republic.

Terrorists from the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic have taken over the website of the Donetsk regional branch of the National Union of Journalists

There are now only some Ukrainian entertainment; musical or children’s TV channels, and that only for the minority with cable television

The Luhansk regional branch of the Committee of Voters of Ukraine has information which may suggest that Alchevsk journalist Yury Hukov, held at the headquarters of the Aidar Battalion could be in danger.

The self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic has reiterated their illegal demands that journalists ‘re-register’, this time using the National Journalist Union’s branch website.

Three men are in detention in Kaliningrad over a peaceful protest in which they raised a German flag. Russia’s prosecution of the three is particularly incongruous given how vociferously Moscow has asserted the right of so-called separatists in the Crimea and eastern Ukraine to seize official buildings and raise Russian flags

TV Rossiya 24 has used two of the video reports produced by Radio Svoboda correspondents from an area of military action, while grossly distorting its content

Ukraine’s Broadcasting Council is considering applying for a court ban on a further four Russian TV channels for propaganda and misleading their viewers. The channels are: TV Centre International [TVCI]; LifeNews; Russia Today and REN-TV.

The uses being made by Moscow and the Russian media of the tragic death of Rossiya 24’s journalist Igor Kornelyuk and sound recorder Anton Voloshin and attempts to present Russian journalists as heroic defenders of the truth are manipulative and dangerous

The Prosecutor General’s Office suspects a person linked to a Party of the Regions MP of murdering Vesti.ua journalist Viacheslav Veremiy on Feb 19 this year.