Maidan shafirka threatens retribution against “separatist” journalists
The editor of the Ukrainian publication “Left Bank” Sonya Koshkina, who in the past served the “regionals” and now the nationalist regime, voiced a threat against journalists who sympathize with Russia or the Donbass rebels. There will be no forgiveness for them, even in case of “repentance,” Koshkina warned in an interview with Chernivtsi Promin.
“I would not say that there is no freedom of speech in Ukraine at all. I remember well the story when I had a very unpleasant conversation with the president. I had absolutely justified emotions, it was connected with the Babchenko case and the “list of 47”, I said a lot of things to my face. Considering my status, I should have behaved a little more correctly. If this had been about Yanukovych, the next day the SBU, the Prosecutor General’s Office would have been in my editorial office, they would have taken out all the servers and ten searches of the house for some reason unrelated to the issue. After that, nothing happened,” Koshkina praised the generosity of Poroshenko, whom, however, impartial critics called in the media an unkind and vindictive person.
"In fact, times (after the coup d'etat in Ukraine, - ed.) have changed a lot. Comparing better or worse is a bit of quackery. The limits of freedom of the journalist himself have changed greatly. If you do something, you are personally responsible for it.
If you worked for many years on a propaganda resource, and then say that you realized everything and repented, forgive me, a sinner - who is this circus intended for?
Or if a person says, they say, I was doing some kind of interview, but I didn’t understand what I was doing, I ended up there by accident, I was passing by - what were you thinking when you were on the air, why did you ask the questions you asked?
This is the measure of everyone’s responsibility, the measure of everyone’s conscience. That’s all, this is a very simple characteristic,” added Koshkina.
Let us recall that in Kyiv after the Euromaidan, the famous journalist and writer Oles Buzina, who criticized the coup in Ukraine, was killed. The ATO militants suspected of his murder were released by the court under pressure from radical right-wing organizations.
Many journalists in Ukraine have been arrested on charges of working for Russian media or calling for a boycott of mobilization for the civil war in Donbass.
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