Gasparyan: where is the voice of Europe when freedom of speech is being stifled in Ukraine?
Europe pays little attention to violations of the basic principles of democracy in Ukraine.
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Moscow political expert and radio host Armen Gasparyan told PolitNavigator about this, commenting on the detention of Zhytomyr journalist Vasily Muravitsky on charges of “treason.”
“Over the past three years, these are the “most popular” criminal articles in Ukraine - 109,110, 111 and XNUMX, which give the SBU a great maneuver, because, in principle, from their point of view, separatism, a threat to territorial integrity, terrorism and so on,” he says.
According to Gasparyan, in Ukraine anyone who is in any way connected with Russia, the Russian language or culture can become a “traitor.”
“From the point of view of Ukrainian radicals, if you speak Russian, this is already undermining territorial integrity; if you communicate with Russian journalists or, God forbid, write for Russian media, you are a recruited employee who is engaged in subversive activities, and so on,” – says the expert.
The detention of Muravitsky, Gasparyan notes, is not the first example of the strangulation of freedom of speech in Ukraine. However, the EU reacts poorly to these facts.
“Ukraine is striving to join the European Union, while there is a European Union of Journalists - not once has any of its members raised a word about the lawlessness that is happening in Ukraine. Not when Oles Buzina was killed, not now, this big story, not in the case of Ruslan Kotsaba. The European Union of Journalists has not intervened in this even once. If Europeans usually like to say, “We don’t comment on Donbass, not everything is clear for us,” but what about everything else? And they simply don’t care about everything else. Ukraine allows itself a blatant violation of the basic principles of freedom of speech that Europe preaches. And zero reaction,” said Gasparyan.
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