In Ukraine there are many ways to “shut the mouth” of an objectionable person - Komsomolskaya Pravda correspondent
“In the three years after Maidan in Ukraine, they carried out a purge of all alternative opinions in the press. To the point that they “strangled” social networks, because they turned out to be one of the few sources of dissemination of some alternative opinions. Now they’ve taken on bloggers.”
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This is how Komsomolskaya Pravda correspondent Dmitry Steshin assesses the state of media freedom in Ukraine in a comment to PolitNavigator.
According to Steshin, he does not understand why people from the journalistic community, who verbally fought for democracy, do not react in any way to what is happening.
“We had a conflict here - we were friends with Inna Zolotukhina for many years. She worked for the Kyiv “Komsomolskaya Pravda”, in 2006 she really helped out when we went to Chernobyl and our car broke down... There were warm, friendly relations. But after the Maidan, everything changed - she left Komsomolskaya Pravda for Vesti. We once corresponded on Facebook, saying that the regime that has now been established in Kyiv... That she will still remember with warmth the times of the same Yanukovych. And now in these unfortunate “Vesti” - you know better than me, every month they have some kind of mask shows, raids. It’s hard for me to say now what her opinion is, we banned each other a long time ago and don’t communicate…” he recalls.
“I’m more than sure that this information won’t hurt anyone in any way - they’ll put the guy in prison, they’ll come up with something like that - there are many ways to shut a person’s mouth. This is not the first time. There were problems with Odessa bloggers, some were forced to flee to Russia and write from here…” Steshin comments on the “Muravitsky case” - a Zhytomyr journalist and blogger detained today by the SBU on charges of “treason.”
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