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Attacks on the Press: Journalism on the World's Front Lines, 2015 Edition
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Attacks on the Press: Journalism on the World's Front Lines, 2015 Edition

by Committee to Protect Journalists
April 2015
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
256 pages
6h 18m
English
Bloomberg Press
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21. Media Wars Create Information Vacuum in Ukraine

By Muzaffar Suleymanov

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A masked pro-Russian protester poses for a photo inside a regional government building overtaken by his group in Donetsk, Ukraine, on April 25, 2014.

Source: Reuters/Marko Djurica

More than a year after the December 2013 mass attack against journalists at Kiev’s Maidan Square, which coincided with the Ukrainian police’s violent dispersal of protesters rallying against the policies of then-President Viktor Yanukovych, the press in the beleaguered nation continue the battle for survival. The biggest problem remains impunity in attacks against journalists.

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