Over 100 Journalists March Against Censorship

“Some say I’m going nowhere, but it’s better than standing still,” as one song goes.



Event: Марш за свободу слова (Freedom of Speech March)

Date: Sunday, Jun. 6, 2010

Venue: Maidan Nezalezhnosti>Cabinet>Verkhovna Rada>Presidential Administration

Who came: Over 100 people, most of them journalists, including big names such as Serhiy Leshchenko, Mustafa Nayem, Tetyana Chornovil, Roman Skrypin et al.

Ukraine’s Richest Man Advocates Healthy Lifestyle, Recalls His Childhood

Rinat Akhmetov, speaking at the opening ceremony of the Zhovtneva Mine pool in Donetsk. (The pool reopened after renovation.)

Today, our youths and our kids will devote more time to sports and somehow will devote less time to alcohol and cigarettes. And that’s called a healthy lifestyle, a healthy generation, a healthy family.

I remember how one guy wanted to touch down the pool’s wall, and so he'd hit me in the face with all his might.

Quick facts:
SCM, a company owned by Akhmetov, controls Sarmat, one of the Big Four breweries in Ukraine. Lawyers for Mr. Akhmetov recently won a lawsuit against Obozrevatel, the Orange-leaning online news engine. The hearings, held in a London court, concerned a series of articles by Tetyana Chornovil, in which she portrayed Akhmetov’s youth based on several interviews.

An estimated 700,000 people are suffering from alcohol abuse in Ukraine. According to a WHO study, alcohol consumption among Ukrainian teenagers makes our country second to none.

Sources:
http://censor.net.ua/go/offer/ResourceID/73301.html
http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2008/1/15/69737.htm
http://www.kyivpost.com/nation/28110/
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3489902,00.html

Yanukovych Threatens International Litigation Against Nosy Reporter

Reporter: Tetyana Chornovil, Obozrevatel. Um…Viktor Fedorovych, the state residence Mezhyhirya, where you still reside, was privatized by a murky firm a few months ago. Could you please tell how it is moral to talk about the sale of state-owned residences in open-bid auctions while doing the privatizing the backdoor way?

Yanukovych: I didn’t hear you well, and…um…I mean…you meant…um…
Reporter: The residence near Novi Petrivtsi…

Yanukovych: ...you meant me perso…me personally?
Reporter: Yes, you personally.

Yanukovych: I would like to tell you, inform you, that if you print unfounded claims, I will sue you.
Reporter: Could you please tell what’s unfounded here?

Yanukovych: …and will sue you in a court — listen, listen to me carefully — in an international court, which I will specify for you later.

Yanukovych: You don’t play, don’t play with me, because I’m a living human being. And do not offend me, because…

What a sad story! In a land of lawlessness, a law-abiding, poor, persecuted, and defamed man like Yanukovych has no hope but to turn to the International Court of Justice, his last line of defense.

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