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Ukrainian newspaper the Kyiv Post has lifted a block on UK traffic to its website following the publication of a new draft defamation bill for England and Wales. The newspaper site put the block in place on 14 December in protest against what it called the UK's "draconian libel laws", following the filing of a libel suit against the title's publisher Public Media, by a Ukrainian businessman, in the UK. The case was thrown out of the high court in February when a judge ruled that the London court was "not the best place" for the libel dispute to be heard as it had "no substantial connection to this jurisdiction". Chief editor Brian Bonner told Journalism.co.uk at the time that the block would not be taken down while the Post waited to see if the ruling would be appealed by the claimant. Read the story here.