Posted on 09/19/2015 9:13:41 AM PDT by Navy Patriot
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko banned a number of Western and Russian journalists from the country, accusing them of being a "threat to national interests" or promoting "terrorist activities," according to a list published on the presidential website on Wednesday.
Two British journalists working for the BBC—Moscow correspondent Steve Rosenberg and producer Emma Wells— and BBC cameraman Anton Chicherov had been banned from entering Ukraine but Judith Gough, the British ambassador to Ukraine, confirmed on Twitter that the BBC journalists would be released.
Two Spanish journalists, Antonio Pampliega and Angel Sastre, were also included on the blacklist although Sastre went missing in Syria in July and has not been seen since. The decree, signed by Poroshenko, indicated that all have been banned for one year.
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I know the FR Borscht Brigade is having a fit about it, so it can’t be all that bad.
I wonder what ones like Katie Couric or Ashleigh Banfield or Carol Costello or Matt Lauer or Stone Phillips or Brianna Keilar or any of these other overpaid suits and pretty faces think of something like this.
They are extremely upset, after all, they are the ones who are supposed to control the news and form public opinion, not some candy man.
Interesting, any updates in 16 months?
Sentsov, a vocal pro-Ukrainian activist, was arrested in May of 2014, and charged with organizing two arson attacks in the eastern Ukrainian city of Simferopol, the BBC says.
Sentsov denies the charges, and the case has been denounced by both the E.U. and by the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt, who said the trial had been farcical. Ukrainian officials insist that Sentsov — who says he was beaten in an attempt to extract a confession — is being persecuted for protesting Russia’s annexation of Crimea.
Then he can sell his chocolate and TV news broadcasting empire, keep the money, get outta the Kiev doghouse, and become uber rich on the Ukrainian and American taxpayers dime.
I wonder if Soros would make room?
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