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Journalists at TVi are bracing for another court verdict in a tax-evasion case that's threatening to drive the television station, one of Ukraine's few remaining independent media outlets, into bankruptcy.

On September 12 TVi is due to further battle claims that it owes the government some $ 375, 000 in back taxes at a court hearing in Kyiv.

The hearing was convened after tax authorities appealed an earlier decision deeming the fine unlawful. 

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