Anyone who relied on Ukraine’s leading media outlets for coverage of Ukraine’s Oct. 31 election would have come to the conclusion that the contest was democratic and blessed internationally.
Serious criticism from the nation’s most reputable domestic monitors, OPORA, as well as international organizations and governments were all but ignored.
Leading television channels, controlled largely by oligarchs loyal to President Viktor Yanukovych, primarily aired the views of election monitors from Russian-controlled missions who are notorious for seeing no problems. Russia, after all, has not had democratic elections in a long time.
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Kyiv Post staff writer Roman Feshchenko can be reached at [email protected].
