Transparency activist receives death threats while standing up to construction mafia in Kyiv suburb
Chesno’s editor- in-chief lives in the village of Kotsiyubynske, Kyiv Oblast. While the village is located only 16…
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Putin’s Number One man in Ukraine sues media to hide Soviet past
Victor Medvedchuk’s attitude toward Ukrainians Victor Medvedchuk is a Ukrainian oligarch and people’s deputy (legislator) from the pro-Russian…
Critics of Ukrainian President Zelenskyy face criminal charges
Did they really threaten to kill Zelenskyy? Read also: Police evidence in murdered journalist Sheremet’s case looking shaky…
Proposed legislation on media may impede freedom of speech in Ukraine
At the end of 2019, the President’s Office published a decree foreseeing among other things the development of…
What’s wrong with Ukraine banning two propaganda channels?
The Parliament of Ukraine has recently voted for a Resolution that proposes to shut down two national TV…
World writers community urges Moscow to free Ukrainian and other prisoners of conscience #LetMyPeopleGo
The delegates of the 83th congress of PEN International convened in Lviv, West Ukraine, assure that they will…
Ukraine considers sanctions against officials behind media crackdown in occupied Crimea
Russia controls not only the territory of the Crimean peninsula it occupied in March 2014, but its media…
In Russia, 7-year old SMS gets you 7 years of prison
In early December, Oksana Sevastidi's undeservingly forgotten story came to the Russian media's attention. In March 2016, the simple…
Why Ukraine banned 17 Russian journalists
On 27 May 2016 Petro Poroshenko signed a decree banning 17 Russian journalists from entering Ukraine till the…
Heroes past and present: Remembering Bolotnaya and Russia’s Victory Day
Moscow has been abuzz in "Victory Day" fever for weeks. Toddlers, puppies and tanks are draped in the…
Russia’s Criminalization of Protest: Ildar Dadin’s Appeal and Article 212.1
On March 31, in a much anticipated appellate procedure in Moscow City Court, a judge considered the appeal…
Five horrific lessons Kremlin sent Russians with the Vologzheninova case
The sentencing of Ekaterina Vologzheninova for reposting materials against Russian aggression in Ukraine to 320 hours of…
Twitter’s new policy misused by pro-Kremlin accounts to block Ukrainian bloggers #SaveUaTwi
In a bid to stop online harassment, twitter adopted new policies in the last days of 2015. One…
Russian federalization march organizer Peter Lubchenkov: “If I get called a terrorist, then so be it”
The organizers of the “March for the federalization of Kuban” have been included into the federal “List of…
Journalists demand dialogue with the government on Georgy Gongadze’s commemoration day
On September 16, journalists in Kyiv and regions traditionally commemorated Georgy Gongadze and other journalists who died doing…
Immunity to censure
Vitaliy Dudin, for the competition “Stop censure! Citizens for free states” When shots are heard, the provision of…
‘Censorship’ or Sanity? – Blocking Enemy Russian Agitprop on Ukrainian TV FAQ
Imagine if the Japanese had 'merely' surrounded Pearl Harbor in 1941, invaded with 30,000 soldiers, issued ultimatums to American troops, took…
Belarusian journalist on the sadists who seized Crimea
Dmitriy Galko met Ukrainians who were kidnapped in Crimea. He spoke about their meeting in his blog: From the…
Wage a media-war in Russian!
Since the crisis in Ukraine took the shape of a fundamental conflict between a growing part of the…
In Luhansk pro-Russian mob seizes broadcasting station
According to journalists in Luhansk, a crowd of people knocked down the entry door of the IRTA broadcasting…