Natalia Lihachova

Some changes are occurring in our society if, for instance, government officials can say out loud that our mass media have lately turned into channels of communication between oligarchs and authorities or that our press, television, and radio are "pressured" not by the government but exclusively by...

The President has issued a decree On Supplementary Measures to Improve Information Activity to better the collection, generalization, and delivery of information to the Presidential Administration and the Cabinet of Ministers about the situation in the regions. The Ministry of Information is “to...

The Gongadze case has taken a new scandalous turn. People’s Deputy Serhiy Holovaty stated on March 20 that the German experts believe the body samples provided by Ukrayinska pravda editor Olena Prytula do not belong to any person that could possibly be Lesia Gongadze’s son, reports Interfax Ukraine...

The habitual visage of an ideological Bolshevik rebel obviously does not fit Heorhy Kriuchkov, a leader of the Communist fraction in Verkhovna Rada. Rather, he assures us that the party is constantly on the go as the times change, that the Communists, while describing the current regime as “anti-...

Without being afraid of boring the reader, I repeat an old maxim: our problem, in my opinion, is that we have changed the notion of the freedom of expression into such an imperative, an object of worship, and the virtually the sole measure we use to gauge the behavior, honor, and honesty of...

Verkhovna Rada devoted the whole day of January 16 to its hearing on the Problem of Informational Activities, Freedom of Speech, Observance of Laws, and the Status of Informational Safety of Ukraine. The hearing revealed the common disease of the Ukrainian body politic: the tendency to break down...

Heorhy Gongadze’s wife Myroslava told The Dayon December 5 that she had received an official reply from the Kyiv Regional Prosecutor’s Office the previous day, following her statement demanding identification of the body and access to material evidence and forensic expert findings. The document she...

The name of Erich Loest is equally well-known both in Eastern and Western Germany. His life vacillates between the two halves of a single nation. The Eastern part is where he gained his civil experience, served a seven year strict regime prison term for “forming counter-revolutionary groups,” had...

Last Friday Verkhovna Rada put the item On the Progress of Investigation into the Disappearance of Journalist Gongadze on the agenda of the next plenary week’s special parliamentary session. The draft resolution mooted by five people’s deputies suggests that President Leonid Kuchma; Minister of...

Socialist leader Oleksandr Moroz urged people’s deputies to ask the US Embassy to carry out an independent forensic examination of the body assumed by some to be that of missing journalist Heorhy Gongadze, reports Interfax Ukraine. He declared that the US Embassy is prepared to help examine the...