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• Topics / Freedom of expression
Conflict of interest in Lyovochkin’s purchase of major share in TV Inter
15.02.2013
Reporters without Borders has expressed its concern that Serhiy Lyovochkin, Head of President Yanukovych’s Administration, has acquired a 20 percent stake in the Inter Media Group
Six UNIAN editors angered over anti-opposition MP smut
13.02.2013
Six editors from the UNIAN website believe that the faked commentary from opposition MPs Serhiy Vlasenko and Oleksandra Kuzhel posted on their site were commissioned material
Head of President’s Administration becomes co-owner of major TV channel
08.02.2013
Serhiy Lyovochkin, Head of President Yanukovych’s Administration and Dmytro Firtash, known for his very close links to the present regime, have become joint owners of the TV Channel Inter
Yet another Party of the Regions MP demands compensation for libel
06.02.2013
Vitaly Zhuravsky, official author of the bill proposing to criminalize libel which aroused huge protest last year has now lodged a civil suit against the national TV channel “1 + 1”, and three other Internet publications.
Freedom of Speech rating also slumps
31.01.2013
The international NGO Reporters without Borders reports that Ukraine which is holding the Chair of the OSCE at present saw a significant increase in violence against journalists in 2012.
Bizarre but true: Police suit against journalist
30.01.2013
The Head of the Dniprovsk District Police Station is demanding 100 thousand UAH in moral compensation from the Editor of the Khersonska Pravda Internet site over the publication of a news item which mentions neither the claimant nor his police station
Startling defamation win over slur on Hundai trains
23.01.2013
A court has apparently awarded Southern Railways 120 thousand UAH in compensation for the words that “Hundai” trains won’t run well. The ruling comes at a time when over 400 passengers have already lodged law suits seeking compensation for disrupted travel on ... Hundai trains
Journalist sued for revealing deputy’s criminal record
23.01.2013
Vasyl Stroyich, a Party of the Regions deputy from the Kosiv District Council has lodged a defamation suit against Ruslan Kotsaba for posting a scanned document apparently of a sentence passed on the deputy
Bizarre attempt to cower Crimean journalists
21.01.2013
The Crimea’s First Deputy Prime Minister believes that the address of the hostel which he is registered at (thus depriving others of badly needed accommodation) while in fact living elsewhere (doubtless in quite different conditions) is “confidential” information …
Intimidation and Black PR: Government employed hackers?
18.01.2013
Opposition politicians and journalists are increasingly being bugged having their email addresses hacked. The victims are convinced that this is intimidation on the order of those in high places
Criminal investigation over threats to Kerch journalist
16.01.2013
On 10 January Iryna Sedova, Editor of the publication received threats and personal insults from 29 different accounts on the social network VKontakte
Strasbourg to judge on imprisonment for cutting Yanukovych’s name off a wreath
15.01.2013
65-year-old Halyna Shvydka was jailed for 10 days after she cut the President’s name off a wreath to the poet Taras Shevchenko.
Activists jailed for anti-Yanukovych graffiti
15.01.2013
The “Black Committee” says that four of its activists have been sentenced to 1-2 years imprisonment over the posters pasted up in Lviv in June 2011 with President Yanukovych with a gunshot to the head
Kharkiv journalist reports threats
14.01.2013
Zhanna Tytarenko asserts that all of this began after material was published about the activities of police officers investigating the disappearance of young men allegedly killed in road accidents
Bugged journalist’s newspaper wants international analysis
09.01.2013
Two days after a listening device was found in the home of Taras Zozulinsky who has exposed corrupt dealings linked with both Yanukovych and Azarov, the Express newspaper has stated it is suspending any cooperation with the police
Prosecutor General quashes indictment against Melnychenko
09.01.2013
Not unexpectedly, the Prosecutor General’s Office has intervened and revoked the indictment for alleged divulgence of state secrets in the criminal case against former Kuchma Guard Mykola Melnychenko and "sent it for further examination"
Express investigative journalists flat bugged
08.01.2013
Taras Zozulinsky, investigative journalist for the newspaper Express is convinced that the bug is because of his journalist investigations and asks journalists to give maximum attention to the criminal investigation
Watch your words!
28.12.2012
If a defamation suit presently underway is successful, it could be a precedent of grandiose proportions with ramifications not only for journalists, but for all those political analysts intrepid enough to voice an opinion about political influences in the new government.
Freedom of Speech in Ukraine – 2012
28.12.2012
The civic movement Stop Censorship and a number of prominent media organizations have reported that 2012 was the worst year in the last decade for violations of journalists’ rights.
Berlin Phantom Newspaper in the campaign against Tymoshenko
27.12.2012
The “newspaper” whose article hammering the imprisoned former Prime Minister and opposition leader was first cited by the State-owned UKRINFORM does not, in fact, exist
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