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TVi, a Ukrainian television channel seen as a last bastion for opposition voices and critical investigative reporting, has fallen victim to a murky hostile takeover that it is feared may lead to its muzzling.

News that Oleksandr Altman, a hitherto little-known US-Ukrainian, was the new owner of the TV station and that Artem Shevchenko, a programme presenter, would take over as chief executive was first broken on Tuesday in a TVi press release sent by email – to the astonishment of TVi’s employees themselves.

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