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Russia's War Against Ukraine

Freedom of speech under siege in Crimea

By Isaac Webb.

Published March 7, 2014 at 4:21 pm

A broken window is seen as journalists film outside the Crimean Parliament building in Simferopol on March 2, 2014. Armed pro-Russia men who had besieged Crimea's local parliament mysteriously vanished on March 2 but were still standing guard outside the regional government, as the capital of Ukraine's restive Black Sea peninsula remained calm but tense. AFP PHOTO/ GENYA SAVILOV

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In the past two weeks, Ukrainian and foreign correspondents have been threatened, attacked, and detained in Russian-occupied Crimea.

On March 7, Dunja Mijatovic, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s Representative on Freedom of the Media, spoke with the Kyiv Post about the current “information crisis” in Ukraine after spending six hours on the peninsula.

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