Crisis Oekra�ne - Rusland #187 Censuur in Oekra�ne

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OSCE representative on Freedom of Media Dunja Mijatovic has said that the organization is concerned over Russian media being stripped of their accreditation in Ukraine. "I am following the news on accreditation. I feel concerned that the Russian public is now deprived of objective and trustworthy direct information from Ukrainian governmental offices…” she told RIA Novosti. On Saturday, Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) said 115 Russian news outlets were to lose accreditation in governmental institutions.

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Kiev's stripping more than 100 Russian media outlets of accreditation at Ukraine's bodies of state power is “openly discriminatory.” It calls into question their interest in a peace settlement, said Russia’s Foreign Ministry and other top official.

On Saturday, the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) issued recommendations to strip more than 100 Russian media outlets of accreditation. The list includes TASS, Rossiya Segodnya and all Russian TV channels except Dozhd, according to the service's spokesperson Yelena Gitlyanskaya. The outlets will be without accreditation until the end of the Ukrainian conflict.

"The openly discriminatory decision by Ukraine's parliament to strip Russian mass media of accreditation at the bodies of state power is an extension of the policy to clear the country's media space of alternative points of view," the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Saturday.

It added this decision comes as a “backdrop to the latest resolutions by the Normandy Quartet's leaders” (the Minsk peace agreement) and “calls in question Kiev's interest in a peace settlement."

Russia’s presidential spokesman Dmytry Peskov said on Saturday the Kremlin will talk to Kiev, pointing out the “inadmissibility of such steps.” He also told TASS Moscow won’t respond to Kiev’s actions by limiting the work of Ukrainian media as “Russia is a country where media activity is regulated by law, and where Russian and foreign journalists have equal rights to obtain information.”

Kiev is continuing its fight against everything Russian, but this limitation won’t prevent Russian journalists from “continuing to objectively cover” the Ukrainian conflict, said head of Russia’s Lower House of Parliament Committee for relations with the CIS bloc, Leonid Slutsky, on Saturday.

Last April, Ukrainian authorities imposed severe restrictions on Russian men, aged between 16 and 60, when attempting to enter Ukraine without their families. The men are only allowed in if they have close relatives, or an official invitation.

Kiev’s ban on Russian journalists and mass media in Ukraine “is nothing but a systematic policy by the Ukrainian authorities abusing Ukraine's responsibilities in the spheres of human rights, the freedom of speech, and the freedom of mass media and access to information," said Konstantin Dolgov earlier. The Russian human right’s commissioner called the decision an “act of information war.” He asked the international community, particularly the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s (OSCE), to react appropriately to the issue,

Earlier in February, 239 Ukrainian lawmakers voted in favor of suspending Russian journalists' accreditation until the conflict in eastern Ukraine ends.

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Op maandag 23 februari 2015 09:27 schreef waht het volgende:

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Ach, dat hoort erbij. Zou ook ietwat idioot zijn om vijandige media volledige toegang in je eigen land te geven. Die vrijheid zou immers keihard misbruikt worden door Ruslandgezinde media terwijl Oekra�ense media in Rusland geen enkel berichtje naar het volk kunnen krijgen.

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Op maandag 23 februari 2015 11:15 schreef waht het volgende:

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Waarom niet? Ik woon in Nederland.

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Op maandag 23 februari 2015 12:47 schreef Kikopuz het volgende:

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Oh nee toch! Nou dat rechtvaardigt de hele situatie in het oosten!

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The Republic of Crimea says it will put Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on trial for his remarks about bringing the region back under Kiev’s rule.

"We pledged to convene a military tribunal in Crimea for Poroshenko and, believe us, we will deliver on our pledge. We will bring him here and try him," said Crimea’s Prime Minister Sergey Valeryevich Aksyonov in the region’s administrative center, Simferopol, on Monday.

Noting that Crimea’s territorial status will not change under any circumstances, Aksyonov added, "Crimea will never return to Ukraine. Crimea has returned to its home country, the Russian Federation, forever."

Poroshenko pledges Crimea reintegration

Earlier in the day, Poroshenko (pictured below) vowed to restore Crimea to the Ukrainian territory.

"The Ukrainian state will regain control over this temporarily occupied territory. I am not saying that this will be a simple thing to do which we will go through quickly. But this will happen by all means,” he said in the Ukrainian capital city of Kiev.

"Ukraine will never give up its sovereign right to Crimea and will defend the rights of the people who live there. The Ukrainian leadership, politicians and civil society have reached a complete consensus on this. We enjoy absolute support for this course from other states and from international organizations," he added.

Crimea's secession

Back in March 2014, Ukraine’s Black Sea peninsula of Crimea joined the Russian Federation following a referendum, a move which greatly frayed Moscow-Kiev ties.

Relations were strained further after Ukraine launched military operations in mid-April 2014 to silence the pro-Russia protests in the country’s mainly Russian-speaking regions of Donetsk and Lugansk in eastern Ukraine.

Kiev, the US and the European Union accuse Moscow of involvement in the chaotic situation in eastern Ukraine and have imposed a series of sanctions against Russian and pro-Russia figures. Moscow, however, rejects the accusation and has retaliated with sanctions of its own.

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Op maandag 23 februari 2015 16:49 schreef DustPuppy het volgende:

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En daar hield ik op met lezen.

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Op maandag 23 februari 2015 16:53 schreef DustPuppy het volgende:

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Ik kan de feiten prima accepteren. Dit is alleen geen feit. Dit is propaganda. Duidelijk te herkennen aan de eerste zin meteen.

Soms moet je kritisch kijken naar een tekst, voordat je dat kunt zeggen, maar dat was in dit geval niet eens nodig.