Ukrainian citizen Oleh Shynkarenko, who maintains a blog on LiveJournal Web site, has claimed he didn't call for violence against Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and other high-ranking officials, and the relevant entries in his blog were made in an emotional state.
"For some reasons the prosecutor’s office and SBU decided I was calling for killing the president. I by no means called for this. God give health to our President Yanukovych! Just one or several my postings in the blog were made in an emotional, furious state, which could happen to anyone," Shynkarenko said in an interview with BBC Ukrainian service.
At the same time, he apologized to readers of the blog for and possible offence.
Shynkarenko also said the actions of the SBU were "interference in personal affairs."
"I, as a journalist, officially I would never say anything like that to the president or anybody else. But I believe that my blog is my private space," he said, adding that his blog is dedicated "mostly to art and literature."
As reported, with reference to the press center of the Security Service of Ukraine, materials allegedly containing threats against Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych were posted in a blog maintained by a Ukrainian citizen, Oleh Shynkarenko, on the LiveJournal Web site.
Since Shynkarenko’s actions bore evidence of a crime under Article 346 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine on threats of violence against a state or public figure, the materials were sent to the prosecutor’s office, press center said.
SBU officers handed Shynkarenko an invitation for interview and brought him to the Prosecutor General’s Office, the SBU report said.
