Financial Times: Kyiv backsliding on democracy
European Union and US officials called on Ukraine last week to ensure proper protection of journalists – 10 years after the gruesome murder of Georgy Gongadze, a muckraking journalist. Their calls carry a renewed urgency. Ukrainian authorities face questions over the recent disappearance of another investigative reporter, Vasyl Klymentyev. For media and human rights monitors, the Klymentyev case has come to symbolise how advances in press and democratic freedoms after the 2004 Orange Revolution have been eroded since February’s election of Russian-leaning president Viktor Yanukovich. Some charge Mr Yanukovich with veering towards the soft authoritarianism of Russia’s Vladimir Putin.
Those concerns have substance.
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Those concerns have substance.
To read this Financial Times editorial, click here.