Ukraine's leading English-language newspaper since 1995

Tomenko looking for inquiry into newspaper closing. Deputy Verkhovna Rada Chairman Mykola Tomenko has called on the committee for freedom of speech and information to hold an inquiry into the closure of the Hazeta Po-Kyivsky newspaper.

"I called on Andriy Shevchenko [the head of the committee for freedom of speech and information, and an MP from the BYT faction] to urgently study the situation that occurred at the Hazeta Po-Kyivsky newspaper, which according to the information we have, stopped publishing for political reasons, as its owners believed it improperly covered the government," Tomenko said at a briefing on Tuesday.

"I as the author of the law on censorship believe: censorship is not only pressure being applied from the government, but pressure applied by owners, and that's why I will be call on the committee to tomorrow [on March 16] at a committee meeting, urgently consider and invite representatives of the employees, the journalists of the Hazeta Po-Kyivsky newspaper, to discuss the situation that occurred, and say why the newspaper has closed," Tomenko said.