Media and human rights groups have reacted with alarm to two draft bills which, in the name of protecting national security, propose some seriously disturbing restrictions which are reminiscent of those applied in Russia. They have called on the authors of the two bills to withdraw them, and point out that democracy is impossible in any countries whose authorities arbitrarily restrict freedom of expression.
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Halya Coynash: Ukrainian legislators propose scary Russia style restrictions on freedom of expression
A laptop shows the reflection of a journalist at a digital security training at the Institute of Mass Information in Kyiv on Oct. 16, 2016.
