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A Kyiv court has found two people guilty of administrative offences over the lazer-beaming of a slogan calling for Tymoshenko’s release 
The Independent Media Trade Union has expressed its opposition to the use of public funding for journalists to travel together with the President , for their accommodation, etc. 
Stop Censorship and a number of Ukrainian media associations have issued a joint statement regarding freedom of speech in 2011. They report an increase in censorship and the number of cases where journalists have been obstructed in their work 
The ruling comes nearly two weeks after the same Pechersky District Court r quashed the criminal proceedings against Leonid Kuchma over the murder of Georgy Gongadze, because the tapes made by Melnychenko are no longer deemed admissible evidence 
The Independent Media Trade Union believes that the decision by TV 1 – 1’s management to remove Oleh Deineka from his role as presenter of the Money programme is in breach of the law and raises suspicions of censorship 
On 20 December the Verkhovna Rada adopted as a base Resolution ¹ 9311 on ensuring the unimpeded activities of the media during the 2012 election campaign. In September a similar move was torpedoed by the Party of the Regions and Communists 
Ms Gongadze’s lawyer has lodged an appeal against the decision of the Pechersky District Court in Kyiv on 14 December which quashed the criminal proceedings against former Presidentt Kuchma in connection with Georgy Gongadze’s murder. 
The Minister of Internal Affairss has created a working group which by 20 January should draw up practical recommendations on police interaction with the media. They are, however, recommendations, not instructions, and therefore not binding 
15 members of the Coalition of Participants in the Orange Revolution and the Black Committee were detained on Monday outside the President’s Administration during a demonstration in favour of European integration 
The Prosecutor General’s website reports that it has lodged an appeal against the ruling on 14 December 2012 which quashed the criminal proceedings against former Presidentt Kuchma in connection with the murder of journalist Georgy Gongadze. 
The Pechersky District Court in Kyiv has ruled that the criminal proceedings initiated against former President Kuchma over alleged involvement in the murder of journalist Georgy Gongadze were unfounded 
Journalists from the newspaper Segodnya [Today] which belongs to Rinat Akhmetov accuse the new Director Olena Hromnytska of trying to censor the content on the Internet site and the printed version of the paper and of publishing commissioned articles 
With the television news avoiding mention of mass protests over electoral infringements, Stanislav Kucher writes: “You can throw out all the “Teffi” awards that you received for “the best news programmes”. During these days you are shaming yourself and your profession”. 
The website Left Shore LB.ua, reports that Dream Line Holding, whose server the website uses has been asked by the police to provide “full details about the legal entity or individual” in whose name the website LB.ua is registered. 
The President’s latest draft law proposing a “counterintelligence unit for protecting the interests of the State in the sphere of information security” is dangerously similar to practice already seen among Ukraine’s post-Soviet neighbours, most notoriously, Belarus 
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