The Schemes (Skhemy) program is broadcast on UA:Pershyi, a Ukrainian national television channel. The program has been screened in Ukraine since 2014 and is known for its coverage of high-profile corruption. During the presidency of Petro...
Chesno’s editor- in-chief lives in the village of Kotsiyubynske, Kyiv Oblast. While the village is located only 16 kilometers from Kyiv’s center, it still remains an enclave within the capital. Kotsiubynske citizens do not receive the...
Victor Medvedchuk’s attitude toward Ukrainians Victor Medvedchuk is a Ukrainian oligarch and people’s deputy (legislator) from the pro-Russian political party Opposition Platform — For Life. Putin is the godfather of Medvedchuk’s...
Did they really threaten to kill Zelenskyy? Read also: Police evidence in murdered journalist Sheremet’s case looking shaky The search and proceedings against Marusia Zvirobiy, a Ukrainian military volunteer who had from the first months...
At the end of 2019, the President’s Office published a decree foreseeing among other things the development of a law on the requirements and standards for media, instruments against disinformation, and strengthening the responsibility...
The Parliament of Ukraine has recently voted for a Resolution that proposes to shut down two national TV channels – NewsOne and 112 Ukraine. The MPs accuse them of spreading Russian chauvinist propaganda and the ideology of terrorism....
The delegates of the 83th congress of PEN International convened in Lviv, West Ukraine, assure that they will not stop demanding the release of Oleg Sentsov, as well as other Ukrainians and Russians persecuted by the Kremlin regime for...
Russia controls not only the territory of the Crimean peninsula it occupied in March 2014, but its media as well. Russian authorities resort to Stalinist methods of pressure on mass media, says Gayana Yuksel, member of the Mejlis, the...
In early December, Oksana Sevastidi‘s undeservingly forgotten story came to the Russian media’s attention. In March 2016, the simple saleswoman from Sochi received a seven-year sentence for treason because of an innocent SMS...
On 27 May 2016 Petro Poroshenko signed a decree banning 17 Russian journalists from entering Ukraine till the end of 2017, accusing them of “stirring hatred.” Following scandals around Ukraine banning dozens of foreign...
Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia Van Voren: Of course, you have a number of Lithuanians who managed quite cleverly to gather wealth and become the upper layer in society. But the extremes you see in Ukraine or Russia is something that didn’t...
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