Foreign Ministry under fire for ‘incompetent’ sanctions list

The scandal over Ukraine’s now notorious blacklist of
prominent international journalists has flared up yet again, as the Foreign
Ministry digs itself in deeper in trying to justify the move.

Oksana Romaniuk of Reporters Without Borders on Sept.
18 published a list of journalists said to have been compiled by the Foreign
Ministry in late February. The list, a photograph of which Romaniuk posted on
Facebook after receiving the documents from an unknown source, apparently
served as the basis for the sanctions list signed by President Petro Poroshenko
on Sept. 16, which included BBC journalists Emma Wells and Steven Rosenberg,
among others.