Petro Poroshenko, apparent winner of the Ukrainian presidential elections, said he plans to keep only one asset, TV Channel 5, and promised that the channel would keep its editorial independence.
“Channel 5 will not be sold. The role the free press played during
the Orange Revolution and during our revolution on the Maidan is
extremely important,” he said at a press conference in Kyiv on May, 26.
Poroshenko noted that the foundations of the channel’s editorial
policy, which prohibit the owner form interfering in it, were signed
back in 2003.
“Channel 5 sometimes criticizes me more than others,” he said.
