Press freedom violation, censorship - Ukraine 2012 press freedom violations (sitios de interés)

The most resonant case of censorship was a statement of five editors of UNIAN site, who on October, 26, 2012 stated about censorship from Vadym Osadchyi, a UNIAN GM. Journalist community, who get to know about UNIAN censorship from the news, was astonished by the fact that the editors found courage to publish this statement. They say that the reason of these actions were fines (200 hrn) of two editors for publishing on the site the news under the title The picket on Bankova: Yanukovych was presented a shoe with a New Year tree. The editors informed that they got a directive not to publish negative news about Victor Yanukovych, the President. The statement was signed by such editors as Liubov Zhalovaha, Valentyna Romanenko, Nataliia Ovdienko, Roman Romaniuk and Nataliia Neherey. This statement shocked journalist community and, as a result, a journalist movement Stop Censorship! demands the Administration of the President to name those people, who directed UNIAN to write about Yanukovych only in a positive way. From the other side, GM of UNIAN stated that there is no censorship on the site and mentioned that the employees didn't realize the difference between objectivity and subjectivity. To answer this statement the UNIAN editors gave examples of censorship: Jeansa of Petro Symonenko, a leader of the Communist Party, and Oleksandr Tretiakov, a parliamentary deputy; prohibition on publishing news about candidates from opposition such as Oles Doniy and Volodymyr Ar'ev.