Our Ukrainian Service reports that commander from several volunteer battalions addressed an open letter to President Petro Poroshenko urging him to crack down on Ukrainian television programming during "wartime." Ukrainian broadcasters' airing of shows that casually include portrayals of Ukraine's "enemies" in the Russian military.
"People with the chevrons of Russia and its military structures are killing us!" it says.
The volunteer-force commanders demand that Poroshenko end "Russian propaganda broadcasts in the form of media products, including [TV] series, movies, and entertainment where idealization of our enemy arises."
Russia's Justice Ministry in August blacklisted as a "foreign agent" the St. Petersburg branch of the Soldiers' Mothers network, with which Lyudmila Bogatenkova is associated. That listing came one day after activists there in Russia's second city cited a list of more than 100 Russian troops who had been killed in eastern Ukraine.
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"Certain progress" made, Poroshenko said afterward:
Dpa's Nikolaus von Twickel comes through with another Russian source on the Bogatenkova detention, activist group Citizens In The Army:
ICYMI yesterday:
Our latest update on the Bogatenkova arrest, including information from our Russian Service and Sergei Krivenko's suggestion to radio station Govorit Moskva that the Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights would look into her case:
Russian 'Soldiers' Mothers' Activist Arrested