18:37
16.4.2014
Yanukovych to rise again?
18:34
16.4.2014
Kremlin crying censorship...
18:33
16.4.2014
18:11
16.4.2014
From our news desk:
The media-freedom representative for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) says the situation for reporters in Ukraine has reached a dangerous stage.
Dunja Mijatovic spoke to reporters on April 16 after making a three-day trip to Kharkiv, Odesa, and Kyiv, where she spoke with journalists from those regions as well as with reporters from Donetsk, Mykolayiv, and Crimea.
She said journalists in Ukraine's conflict areas were "under attack, both physically and as part of ongoing psychological warfare."
Mijatovic added, "Journalists in conflict areas face violence, seizure, and destruction of equipment, and threats on a daily basis."
She said journalists in Crimea, the Ukrainian territory annexed by Russia in March, must contend with additional problems such as re-registration, possible eviction from the region if they are deemed as disloyal and do not obtain Russian citizenship, threats, and denial of access to public information.
Mijatovic urged journalists in Ukraine to have solidarity, and to "report the truth and to stay safe."
Dunja Mijatovic spoke to reporters on April 16 after making a three-day trip to Kharkiv, Odesa, and Kyiv, where she spoke with journalists from those regions as well as with reporters from Donetsk, Mykolayiv, and Crimea.
She said journalists in Ukraine's conflict areas were "under attack, both physically and as part of ongoing psychological warfare."
Mijatovic added, "Journalists in conflict areas face violence, seizure, and destruction of equipment, and threats on a daily basis."
She said journalists in Crimea, the Ukrainian territory annexed by Russia in March, must contend with additional problems such as re-registration, possible eviction from the region if they are deemed as disloyal and do not obtain Russian citizenship, threats, and denial of access to public information.
Mijatovic urged journalists in Ukraine to have solidarity, and to "report the truth and to stay safe."
18:02
16.4.2014
17:59
16.4.2014
"Fears of war" indeed.
17:58
16.4.2014
17:08
16.4.2014
The "Antiterror Campaign" continues in eastern Ukraine.
17:04
16.4.2014
More on the theme of Kyiv being its own worst enemy.
16:44
16.4.2014
From our news desk:
The German government has rejected a petition to remove two tanks from a Soviet World War II memorial in central Berlin in protest at Russia's actions in Ukraine.
Germany's best-selling tabloid "Bild" and its Berlin affiliate B.Z. had urged readers to send letters of protest to parliament to demand the removal of the tanks.
Chancellor Angela Merkel's deputy spokesman, Georg Streiter, quashed the bid on April 16.
Streiter noted that Germany signed a treaty with Russia in 1990 pledging to "respect, maintain, and care for" the Soviet war monuments in their current form.
The Soviet war memorial is dedicated to the 80,000 Red Army soldiers killed during the Battle of Berlin in the spring of 1945. It features columns, a giant statue of a Russian soldier, and two T-34 tanks.
Germany's best-selling tabloid "Bild" and its Berlin affiliate B.Z. had urged readers to send letters of protest to parliament to demand the removal of the tanks.
Chancellor Angela Merkel's deputy spokesman, Georg Streiter, quashed the bid on April 16.
Streiter noted that Germany signed a treaty with Russia in 1990 pledging to "respect, maintain, and care for" the Soviet war monuments in their current form.
The Soviet war memorial is dedicated to the 80,000 Red Army soldiers killed during the Battle of Berlin in the spring of 1945. It features columns, a giant statue of a Russian soldier, and two T-34 tanks.