SBU seized the editorial office of Vesti after an article about Nalyvaichenko’s daughter - Guzhva
Kyiv, September 11 (PolitNavigator, Victoria Litovchenko) – In Kyiv, the editorial office of the newspaper “Vesti” on Zhilyanskaya Street was broken into by people who introduced themselves as employees of the SBU: employees are kept at their workplaces and searched.
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“The activities of the editorial office are completely paralyzed. Journalists are not allowed to work. Those editorial staff who were on site at the time of the seizure of the premises are kept in the building and are not allowed to talk on their mobile phones. In addition, the servers on which the vesti.ua website is located are being seized, which is why the site does not work (now we are moving it to a new site),” said editor-in-chief Igor Guzhva.
“We just want to note two facts. Firstly, two days ago our newspaper published a publication that the daughter of the head of the SBU Nalyvaichenko lives in the USA and rents housing in the most prestigious area of New York. Secondly, this is the second seizure of the editorial office by security forces in the last six months and again during the election campaign,” he recalled on his Facebook page/
“We are again talking about fabricating a criminal case. The goal is to block our work... The basis is Article 110, part two (encroachment on territorial integrity),” Guzhva later said.
According to him, the SBU saw the encroachment in several articles that were published in the Reporter magazine (two in April, one in July).
“We are talking about the articles “Makhnovist state”, “Slavic-proletarian republic” and “Junta! Betrayed! Down with!" Naturally, our authors did not allow any encroachments on the territorial integrity of Ukraine there. These were ordinary reports “along the other front line” - from Slavyansk, when Ponomarev and Strelkov-Girkin were in charge there, from the captured regional administrations. There, of course, there was direct speech from the separatists, just as it was (and is) in all Ukrainian media, which did, for example, interviews with Pushilin or the Abwehr or communicated with ordinary supporters of the DPR/LPR,” he noted.
“If you wish, you can include any newspaper, radio or TV channel under this article. Therefore, this is only an excuse to attack our holding specifically and block its activities, completely clear the information space before the elections from any media that is not afraid to express an independent point of view,” Guzhva believes.
As PolitNavigator reported, on May 22, the office of the editorial offices of the opposition newspaper Vesti and the magazine Reporter in Kyiv was searched by the tax police and the Ministry of Internal Affairs. In the summer, unknown persons attacked the office, destroying it.
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