Financial Times: Editor’s sacking sparks Kyiv strike

Journalists at the Kyiv Post, Ukraine’s leading English-language newspaper, have gone on strike, complaining that the weekly’s editor was fired for running a controversial interview with Ukraine’s minister of agriculture. In the interview, Mykola Prysyazhnyuk defended Ukraine’s controls on grain exports, imposed after last year’s poor harvest. Grain traders and the American Chamber of Commerce in Kyiv have attacked the quota policy as being non-transparent and violating international trade agreements. The policy has proved contentious because of the billions of dollars at stake in what is one of Europe’s breadbaskets. Read the story here.