25 Mayo, 2018 / By sputniknews.com Ukrainian authorities on Thursday blocked the operation of Rossiya Segodnya International News Agency on the country’s territory in a move which Moscow and the international journalistic community have denounced as another step in the censorship and intolerance campaign against an alternative viewpoint. Earlier on Thursday, Rossiya Segodnya was included in Ukraine’s…
25 July, 2017 / By Joseph Varghese, Gulf Times Several leading media experts have stressed the need for joint efforts to protect media freedom around the world. They were speaking yesterday at the plenary session of an international conference on the threats facing freedom of expression, being held in Doha which will conclude today. Organised by…
7 July, 2017 / By Mykola Riabchuk, New Eastern Europe Not long ago, the reputable Denmark-based international watchdog Freemuse, which monitors the freedom of artistic expression around the globe, published its annual report, titled “Art under threat”. One of the highlighted pieces from the report stated that “Ukraine in 2016 topped the list as the worst…
1 February 2016 / Published by http://www.rt.com Ukraine’s authorities have urged a French broadcaster to take a documentary titled “Masks of Revolution” off the air. They claim the movie misrepresents Maidan events, and have a list of their own suggestions for what needs to be shown. The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry in their facebook statement went…
1 Octubre 2015 / By A new law with the aim of ensuring transparency of media ownership in Ukraine came into force Thursday. On 10 September, President Petro Poroshenko signed the law “On Amendments to Several Laws of Ukraine on Ensuring the Transparency of Media Ownership and Implementing the Principles of State Policy in the…
1 April 2015 / By OSCE.org VIENNA, 1 April 2015 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today said that media pluralism and access to information in Crimea, Ukraine, have been limited even further, following the end of the imposed re-registration period for all media outlets by 1 April 2015. “Crimean Tatar…
