Wall Street Journal: Press under pressure
Chernobyl will likely dominate international attention on Ukraine this week, with the accident's 25th anniversary approaching and Japan's nuclear crisis still looming large. But also deserving interest is another dark mark on Ukraine's political consciousness, one similarly reflective of lingering Soviet-era ghosts. Last Friday Brian Bonner, the editor of the English-language Kyiv Post, was fired after the newspaper published a forthright interview with Ukraine's minister of food and agriculture. The paper's editorial staff has gone on strike to demand Mr. Bonner's reinstatement, saying that he was punished for his unkind editorial stance toward the government of President Viktor Yanukovych. Read the story here.