Oh, absolutely. Putin's got everything straightened out in Russia.
Posted on 10/20/2015 2:24:37 PM PDT by marvel5
A Ukrainian television channel has published a statement by its former producer, claiming officials from President Petro Poroshenko's administration banned the channel from broadcasting footage of a handshake the Ukrainian leader exchanged with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin at a recent meeting.
The handshake took place at the start of a meeting in Paris on Oct. 2, but when television channel 112 Ukraina was preparing a report about the gathering, it received a “barrage of calls” from the presidential administration and security services “about the unacceptability of showing the handshake on the air,” former producer Viktor Zubritsky said on his Facebook page Sunday.
“So, Poroshenko shook Putin's hand, but did not want Ukrainians to known about it,” Zubritsky said. “And somehow strangely, all of Ukraine's television channels did not notice that event.”
(Excerpt) Read more at themoscowtimes.com ...
IIRC, Poroshenko owns the Ukranian TV station. He said he was going to give it up when elected...but decided not to.
If I am not mistaken, Poroschenko owns Ukrainian TV Channel Five. This appears to be a different outlet.
So there’s freedom of the press in Russia but not Ukraine. Whooda thunk it.
“So there’s freedom of the press in Russia but not Ukraine”
Wrong again. Ukraine is ranked #129 and Russia is ranked #152 out of 180 countries in the World Press Freedom Index.
“While Russia’s leading TV channels continue to inundate viewers with propaganda, the Ukrainian crisis led to an increase in pressure on independent media, with a string of draconian laws, website blocking and leading independent news outlets either being brought under control or throttled out of existence. The climate has become very oppressive for those who question the new patriotic and neo-conservative discourse and, in some regions, local despots have taken advantage of this new climate to step up their persecution of critics.”
https://index.rsf.org/#!/index-details/RUS
Oh, absolutely. Putin's got everything straightened out in Russia.
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