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...hearings on the matter on Dec. 4 in response to complaints from journalists and media monitoring groups - to enforce guarantees of free expression. "Maybe we don't have censorship de jure, but it certainly exists de facto," says Andriy Shchevchenko, leader of the newly formed Independent Media Union. Serhiy Vasilyev, head of President Kuchma's Information Department, insisted the memos were nothing more than simple press releases. But some 500 journalists signed a manifesto in which they threatened to strike in protest against the temniki and in support of free-expression guarantees. "Ukraine is the most informationally open country," counters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No News Is Bad News | 12/15/2002 | See Source »

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