Anatoly Lemysh

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...

Last Tuesday at noon, bailiffs turned off the electricity and sealed the switchboards at the editorial office of Kievskie Vedomosti (Kyiv News). The computer screens fell dark, the faxes were silent, and the staff was told to leave the building. According to Yevhen Yakunov, Editor-in-Chief,...

Events accompanying the physical assault on Oles Buzyna and pogrom of Rivne’s newspaper carrying an excerpt from the book, Taras Shevchenko the Werewolf, were certainly not scandalous accidents. They were rooted in the scandalous character of the both “celebrities,” journalist Oles Buzyna and...

The report of Leonid Derkach, chairman of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), on an anti-constitutional plot exposed by his agency evoked interest bordering on agitation among Deputies and parliamentary journalists. According to Gen. Derkach, investigators have found “irrefutable evidence that...

There is no information on Heorhy Gongadze’s whereabouts, the top Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVS) and Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) officials at a press conference announced last Tuesday. And that all despite the fact that a broad-scale search operation with an unprecedented number involved...

Two Ukrainian Internet service companies, Lucky Net provider and the ElVisti Information Center have officially presented the 2000 Ukrainian Internet Resources reference book, the first of its kind in Ukraine. It included 5000 web addresses registered in Ukraine, providing brief annotation on their...

One can not but render the 1+1 channel its due: recently it has taken the lead as to the number of controversial programs it has put on. “Epicenter” was no exception as it hosted Victor Yushchenko. Vyacheslav Pikhovshek suggested that the Prime Minister elaborate on the accomplishments of his...

The sensation occurred at a court hearing in the case of Oleksandr Horobets, former chief editor of the Pravda Ukrainy, vs. the new management and what the claimant considered his unlawful dismissal. The respondent, secretary of a primary journalist organization Oleksandr Sokol, admitted that...

As is now traditional, Kyiv City Hall presented the populace with a variety of “specialties” — free burgers, chips, soft drinks — and all kinds of shows on the last weekend of May marking Kyiv Day. Independence Sq. was, of course, the venue of gala concerts starring Andrei Makarevich and Yuri...

Last Wednesday, the Russian newspaper Obshchaya gazeta brought out a special issue, with a press run of 500,000, fully devoted to the media situation in Russia. The issue was motivated by the recent strong-arm action against Media-Most Holding, with 57 journalists from various media contributing...