Ukraine’s media : ’Oligarchs remain in control and the promise of Maidan has not been fulfilled’ - watch on - uatoday.tv
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“Progress has been made in Ukraine, but institutions remain weak and true independence is still elusive.” Those were the words of Brian Bonner, the chief editor of English-language weekly The Kyiv Post and a man with more than a decade of experience working in the Ukrainian media. He joined us in the Viewpoint studio.
“Relatively we are much freer than Russian and most of the former Soviet republics.”
“If you look at media ownership that we have, media analysts have looked at it: the same top five oligarchs own most of the media. [...] What the media monitors say is when they analyze the coverage, they can tell just by the content who owns it. This suggests that the owners are sill interfering in the editorial policy, and that’s detrimenta to the free speech.”
Point de vue du rédacteur en chef du Kyiv Post.
