Ukraine

(RSF/IFEX) – According to information made available by RSF on 31 July 1998, on 27 July 1998, Igor Alexandrov, a host on regional television in Donetsk (eastern Ukraine), was sentenced to a five-year ban from working as a journalist and fined 2,500 grivnas (US$1,250.00) for “libel” by the Donetsk Tribunal. He is appealing the verdict. […]

(RSF/IFEX) – According to information made available by RSF on 2 July 1998, on 29 June 1998, at approximately 9:00 a.m. (local time), Olexandre Syrtsov, a reporter for the daily “Den”, was attacked by unknown individuals on his way to work in Lviv (in western Ukraine). The journalist, who received severe kicks to his head […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – According to CPJ, on 23 February 1998, a libel judgment was issued against “Vseukrainskiye Vedomosti”, which has forced the shut-down of the popular opposition daily. “Vseukrainskiye Vedomosti” published its last issue on 26 March 1998, after losing a controversial libel case to a government-tied sports organization for 3.5 million hryvnyas (about US$1.8 million) […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – On 28 January 1998 the government of the Ukraine shut down the opposition daily newspaper “Pravda Ukrainy”, two months before national parliamentary elections. According to the newspaper’s editor, Oleksander Horobets, the shutdown occurred when the state publishing house, Presa Ukrainy, announced it would no longer publish the newspaper on the order of the […]

(RSF/IFEX) – RSF is concerned about a bomb attack on the offices of the daily newspaper “Vetcherniaia Gorlovka”, in the Donetsk region in the eastern part of the country. According to its information, RSF reports that on 8 January 1998 at about 3:40, unknown people threw a grenade through the window of the office of […]

**Includes new cases. For background to previously- reported case, see IFEX alerts as noted in text** In a 10 July 1996 letter to Ukrainian authorities, the full-text of which is included below, the CPJ expresses concern at attacks against journalists in Simferopol and Sevastopol, at reports of serious incidents which threaten press freedom in the […]

Six anonymous articles attacking independent journalists have been published in leading Ukrainian newspapers known to be close to the government. On 11 June 1996, an article published in “Nezavissimost” with a false byline attacked Dimitri Djanguirov, a journalist with the weekly “Business”, stressing his Armenian origins in order to discredit his criticism of presidential policy. […]

On 10 May 1996, the dead body of freelance journalist Igor Grouchetsky was found on a street near his home in the city of Tcherkassy, southwest of Kiev. He had a severe wound to his head. According to Ukrainian television and the Interfax-Ukraine news agency, Grouchetsky was well-known for his reporting of crime and corruption […]

In April 1995, Vladimir Sobolevskiy, a reporter for Kharkov regional television, was dismissed from his position for “a serious lack of judgment displayed during an interview.” The interview in question was with a renowned economist, A. Gougel, who was critical of a draft Constitution currently being debated in Parliament. Sobolevskiy reportedly reproached the economist for […]

Source: Ukraine-based Russian journalist **Updates IFEX CH alert dated 15 December 1994** CPJ reports on 4 January that the circumstances in the 15 October 1994 arrest of publisher Gennady Romanov appear to be legitimate. On 15 December 1994, the IFEX CH distributed an appeal for information on the circumstances of the arrest of Romanov. It […]