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In the fifth apparent attempt to harass Yelena Barannyk, blood was spread around outside her flat with the remains of liver, entrails etc strewn over the landing 
Kyiv journalist Anatoly Shariy has asked for political asylum in Lithuania, and asserts that he is facing persecution by law enforcement bodies in Ukraine in connection with his journalist work. 
The journalist movement Stop Censorship has issued a statement in which it calls on representatives of all political forces to stop the practice of commissioning information about their activities which is not marked as political advertising 
In the face of clear evidence that the media is being instructed to hype up election-linked “social initiatives” and generally give positive coverage to the President and Prime Minister, the State Broadcasting Committee is actually trying to justify this 
The authorities have simply ignored the vital questions raised by a number of journalist organizations regarding the Gongadze case. These are now to be sent as information requests in accordance with the Information Act 
A letter has been made public which suggests Ukraine’s leaders may have restarted the tradition under President Kuchma of “temnyky” – instructions from above on the material to be given coverage and how 
Journalists and civic activists are demanding that the Prosecutor stop unlawful pressure on the Chief Editor of the Dnipropetrovsk newspaper “Litsa” Olena Harahuts over publications on corruption and raider seizures 
Despite initial denials, a criminal case has been initiated against two students who pasted leaflets ridiculing President Yanukovych 
The Prosecutor of the Podilsk District of Kyiv on Monday 5 March initiated a criminal investigation over the attack on Oksana Romanyuk. The investigation is not, however, over obstruction of a journalist carrying out her work 
On 15 March the Verkhovna Rada is due to consider a resolution withdrawing Draft Law ¹ 7132 on amendments to the Law on Protection of Public Morality 
On 1 March the Pechersky District Court in Kyiv rejected an application from Myroslava Gongadze’s lawyer, Valentina Telychenko to have the trial of Oleksy Pukach over the murder of Georgy Gongadze made open to the public 
The District Administrative Court in Kyiv has allowed the suit brought by journalist Yehor Sobolyev, Director of the Svidomo Journalist Investigation Bureau against the Kyiv City Council 
The court decided not to examine the suit since the claimant had failed to appear twice. Termination of proceedings is standard in such cases. 
On 27 February, the day of the latest scheduled hearing in the trial of former Police General Oleksy Pukach, a number of journalist organizations registered their statement asking that the trial be open 
The Donetsk authorities have drawn up an Information Policy Strategy for the region which they say is aimed at changing the negative image of the region. Local journalists consider it an instrument for increasing censorship on the media 
“It so happens that most of the audience, most of the voters don’t have the opportunity to hear authoritative voices. They listen to those who manipulate public opinion. There’s no journalism in this. It’s a game and I don’t want to play” - prominent journalist, Mustafa Nayem 
The search came two days after 200 Afghanistan War veterans deliberately snubbed President Yanukovych and other public officials by demonstratively turning their back on them 
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