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• Topics / Freedom of expression
Is the Security Service about to establish total control of the Internet?
28.05.2006
The Head of the Department of Special Telecommunications Systems and Protection of Information of the Security Service of Ukraine considers that the Ukrainian segment of the Internet should be regulated in order to avoid threats to the countrys national security
The Ukrainian Mass Media: Positive trends against a background of negative aspects
04.05.2006
The Institute of Mass Information reiterates warnings issued by KHPG and other human rights organizations that legislative instruments are needed to ensure that the improvements in press freedom are permanent
3 May 2006 The Ukrainian Media environment is poised “at zero”, according to an IMI expert
04.05.2006
While trends may be positive, certain anachoronistic or less than transparent features are pointed out as hampering progress
The IPI criticizes self-censorship in the Russian mass media and condemns systematic repression in Belarus
03.05.2006
While Ukraine may be enjoying greater freedom of speech, the media in two neighbouring countries are, according to the International Press Institutes annual report for 2005, increasingly stifled
The worst enemies of press freedom include Putin and Castro
03.05.2006
"Reporters without borders" warn of serious grounds for concern as the world marks International Press Freedom Day
Its become freer in Ukraine, but journalists still get beaten up
02.05.2006
Freedom House notes positive trends in press freedom during 2005 in Ukraine, but warns that pressure and attacks on journalists still do occur
12 cases recorded in March of pressure on Ukrainian journalists
09.04.2006
The latest “Barometer of freedom of speech” reports an increase in violations of journalists rights in the month of the elections, but notes that all detentions and arrests since the "Orange Revolution" have taken place in other CIS countries.
The Pechersky District Courts Resolution of 10.02.06
10.03.2006
The full Resolution on the suit brought by Natalya Vitrenko against the Minister of Internal Affairs, Yury Lutsenko, alleging involvement in pre-election campaigning
Internet giants against Chinese cyberdissidents: the lessons for Ukraine
01.03.2006
The author describes the degree to which the Internet giants have been abetting the Chinese regime in censoring Chinese cyberspace, and asks whether in Ukraine we should feel free of such encroachments of democratic freedom
Public Statement from the International Society “Memorial” on the official warning it has received for publishing an independent expert study.
01.03.2006
The latest offensive against a nongovernmental organization in Russia has used the law against extremist activity in an absurd but also disturbing warning issued to the respected international society “Memorial”, striking yet another blow against freedom of speech.
In Sumy a newspaper has been closed. Is the closure of media outlets during the elections becoming a tradition?
27.02.2006
While nobody is disputing the fact of pre-election campaigning, questions are sometimes raised about the motives of those seeking the suspension of offending media outlets
An overview of changes in legislation regulating the activities of the Mass Media and freedom of information in Ukraine in 2005
10.02.2006
The author provides a detailed analysis of legislation pertaining to the Mass Media and freedom of information over the past year and suggests reasons for the mixed picture of progress and retrograde moves presented.
Comments and suggestions on the draft laws aimed at reforming the passport system in Ukraine (Draft Laws № 7384, №7384-1, №7384-2
08.02.2006
This expert analysis of three present draft laws highlights the issues which still need to be resolved in establishing a modern passport system and the dangers to personal freedom which need to be borne in mind.
Whos living in my telly?
07.02.2006
Information about who is behind leading television and radio companies in Ukraine, and insight into the disturbing limitations of present legal safeguards of access to information.
Journalists protest against persecution of their colleague
04.11.2005
Investigative journalists, headed by Chief Editor Igor Kanevskiy, are leaving the newspaper “Biznes” in protest at the persecution of their colleague Oleksandr Dranikov. A new media-project will be created in Ukraine, which will specialize in investigative journalism.
Another likely case of pressure on journalists
12.10.2005
The Deputy Chief Editor of the newspaper “Ogni Severodonetska” ended up in hospital after a visit from a "police officer"
The authorities of the Zakarpatska region try to take over the control of the only all-Ukrainian Hungarian-language newspaper “Karpati igaz so”
12.10.2005
After the revolutionary events in Ukraine and in the Zakarpatska region, new authorities, in particular new head of the regional state administration Viktor Baloga, decided to take over the control of the independent Hungarian-language press, which dared to elucidate the events in the light negative for state officials
Press Release: How the public assess the level of freedom of speech in the mass media of the Chernihiv region
14.09.2005
The results of a survey carried out by the Chernihiv City Department of the all-Ukrainian public organization “Voters committee of Ukraine”.
Information about an attack on a Luhansk journalist has been passed to the prosecutors office
14.09.2005
Documentation relating to the illegal search of the building and to the infliction of bodily injuries on a journalist of the newspaper “Luganchane” by tax police officers of the Kharkiv region has been passed to the Luhansk regional prosecutors office.
Attack on Luhansk journalist by Kharkiv tax police officers
14.09.2005
On 28 July 2005 men with machine guns accompanied by some people in civilian clothes identifying themselves as officers of the Kharkiv regional tax militia stormed an office situated on the Oboronnaya street. They conducted an illegal search of the office and inflicted bodily injuries on a young employee of the newspaper “Luganchane”.
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