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During the peaceful protest staged by around 15 journalists during President Yanukovych’s address to the World Newspaper Congress in Kyiv, presidential guards manhandled two of the protesters  –the Chief Editor of Ukrainska Pravda, Olena Prytula and Kyiv Post Deputy Editor Katya Gorchynska.  A guard…

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The following is an appeal open for endorsement to members of the international community, especially journalists presently in Kyiv.  It is also a demand to the Ukrainian authorities to stop the systematic destruction of the independent TV channel TVi

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Statement from members of civil society in Ukraine on the eve of the 64th World Newspaper Congress – 19th…

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Appeal by TVi Channel journalists to the Ukrainian public, the PACE, the European Parliament, the OSCE, Election observation missions, international observers, members of the World Newspaper Congress, the World Editors Forum, and embassies of democratic countries.

The end of July marked the start of the parliamentary election campaign in Ukraine. TVi, the last TV channel that…

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Freedom of the press is restricted in Ukraine. But the World Newspaper Conference begins there next weekend. Can Ukrainian media gain more rights through the event?

From Michael Golden, vice chairman of the New York Times Company, to Rainer Esser, managing director of German newspaper "Die Zeit, " the list of speakers at this year’s World Newspaper Congress and World Editor’s Forum in…

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Charter 97 reports the arrests of moderators of social network opposition groups. It says that the Belarusian KGB has also hacked into the largest Internet communities in the network Vkontakte “We’re sick of that Lukashenko” which has 37 thousand users, and “Only ShOS” [the Shanghai Coordination Organization] with 15 thousand users.

First reports suggest that Pavel Yevtezheev, Andrei…