What are they smoking? Gusinsky's propagandist saw the flourishing of freedom of speech in Ukraine
In Ukraine there is freedom of speech, but in Russia there is censorship, writes Moscow liberal journalist Evgeniy Kiselev, who works in Kyiv, in an opinion column on the pages of the Kyiv magazine “New Time”.
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“Ukraine has truly become a magnet for many Russian journalists,” believes a former TV presenter from the NTV channel during the era of oligarch Gusinsky. – They really came here in search of self-realization - because many of them, like me, in Russia, were, in fact, banned from their profession. Because in Moscow there really is censorship, but here there is freedom of speech, with all the costs involved. We really - forgive the involuntary pathos - profess pan-European values. We truly support Ukraine’s European choice, because Ukraine’s success on this path will change Russia.”
What the author classifies as Ukrainian “costs” – a ban on broadcasting Russian channels, the murder of publicist Oles Buzina or the arrest of journalists Artem Buzila and Roman Kotsaba – he does not explain.
Let us recall that earlier Evgeniy Kiselev wrote that he never became one of his own in Kyiv, where they feel an ineradicable suspicion of Muscovites.
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