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In late 2013, early in the Maidan demonstrations, Savik Shuster, one of Ukraine's most influential television hosts, made the mistake of inviting opposition leaders onto his talk show. Shuster's network, whose owners were aligned with Viktor Yanukovych, then the president, promptly dropped Shuster's program Savik Live. It was picked up by Channel 5, a station owned by a western-leaning oligarch named Petro Poroshenko. Last month, Shuster again found himself under pressure -- this time, he says, from Poroshenko, who is now Ukraine's president.

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