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• 2004.02.05 | peter byrne

  Re: МАУП і "Сільскі вісті"

  http://www.kyivpost.com/nation/media/20698/
  
  Lunatic Fringe on a Binge
  By Peter Byrne, Kyiv Post Staff Writer
  Feb 5, 2004 02:10
  
  
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  Socialist Party deputies on Feb. 3 mulling Silski Visti. Valentina Semenyuk, who defended the newspaper in court, shows the latest issue to the paper's editorial board members, Ivan Bokiy and Ivan Spodarenko, the newspaper's former editor-in-chief.
  
  
  In a move that has raised free press issues, Judge Iryna Saprykina of Kyiv’s Shevchenko District Court on Jan. 28 ordered the closure of the newspaper Silski Visti after finding it guilty of fomenting interethnic strife in two articles about Jews in Ukraine.
  
  The ruling evoked criticism from observers worried that a newspaper could be silenced by the government for its opinions. Our Ukraine, the Socialist Party, and the Yuliya Tymoshenko Bloc promptly condemned the decision, issuing statements accusing the Presidential Administration of orchestrating the incident to close an opposition newspaper.
  
  Professor Vasyl Yaremenko, Director of the Institute of Cultural and Ethnological Studies Institute at the Interregional Academy for Personnel Management, authored both articles, titled “The Myth of Ukrainian Anti-Semitism” and “Jews in Ukraine Today: Reality Without Myth.”
  
  The main thesis of Yaremenko’s rambling diatribes is that Jews in Ukraine are a privileged national minority and run the country by controlling Ukraine’s economy and media. Any attempts to oppose this situation or point out that such a state of affairs exists, Yaremenko argues, are presented in the media, which is controlled by Jewish oligarchs, as manifestations of Ukrainian anti-Semitism.
  
  Jed Sunden, publisher of the Kyiv Post and president of KP Publications, is among the media moguls on Yaremenko’s list of “Zionists,” which includes Presidential Administration head Viktor Medvedchuk and President Leonid Kuchma’s son-in-law, Viktor Pinchuk.
  
  Silski Visti published Yaremenko’s essays on Nov. 15, 2002 and Sept. 30, 2003, respectively. Unabridged versions of the materials had appeared previously in the academy’s magazine, Personnel. “The academy paid Silski Visti to run the articles,” Oleh Cherevko, a member of the newspaper’s editorial board, told the Post on Feb. 1.
  
  Ihor Slissarenko, vice president of the academy and editor of Personnel, would not confirm or deny Cherevko’s assertion, and refused to comment about the Silski Visti case.
  
  “I’ve had a bad experience with your company,” is all he would tell the Post on Feb. 2.
  
  An editorial column by KP Publications’ Jed Sunden in the Feb. 18, 2003 issue of Korrespondent, a sister publication of the Kyiv Post, called attention to the articles appearing in Personnel, prompting the academy and Slissarenko to file a slander suit against KP Publications, a suit that KP Publications vowed to fight.
  
  Kyiv’s Pechersk district court last August awarded damages of Hr. 80,000 and Hr. 20,000 to the academy and Slissarenko, but those damages were reduced substantially by Kyiv’s Appeal Court on Dec. 26, 2003. KP Publications on Jan. 26 requested that the Supreme Court overturn the ruling.
  
  “The case is a matter of principle for the company,” KP Publications’ lawyer, Vadym Yevtushenko, told the Post on Feb. 3.
  
  Slissarenko’s academy and journal are supported by prominent opposition politicians preoccupied with conspiracy theories in which Jews and Anglo-Saxons conspire against Orthodoxy and Slavdom.
  
  Supporters include Socialist Party deputy Ivan Bokiy - a member of Silski Visti’s editorial board - and Andry Shkil, a nationalist Batkivschyna Party member from Yulia Tymoshenko’s parliament faction. Silski Visti was represented in court by Pavlo Kuchenko, a former member of the Ukrainian State Prosecutor’s Office, Pavlo Movchan, president of the Ukrainian society “Prosvit,” Socialist Party deputy Valentina Semenyuk and Vasily Chervoniy, an outspoken nationalist deputy belonging to the Our Ukraine faction.
  
  Lawyers for the newspaper argued unsuccessfully in court that Yaremenko’s articles appeared to promote his book. There was no mention in the Sept. 30, 2003 issue of Silski Visti, however, that the article was an advertisement. Judge Saprykina told the weekly Zerkalo Nedeli in a Jan. 31 interview that Ukraine’s press law unambiguously stipulates the closure of publications that stir up racial, ethnic, or religious antagonisms.
  
  Saprykina said her ruling does not mean that Silski Visti will cease to appear immediately, because appeals against her verdict could prolong the life of the newspaper for at least a year, if not overturn it altogether.
  
  Oleh Lyashko, editor of opposition weekly Svoboda, told the post on Feb. 1 that he had little sympathy for Silski Visti editors or their influential backers.
  
  “Silski Visti should be raked over the coals for printing that crap,” Lyashko said. He added that the scandal has illustrated the ineptitude of opposition leaders, who are afraid to alienate their most ardent supporters.
  
  Lyudmilla Pankratova, an attorney working for the U-Media project managed by the International Research and Exchanges Board, or IREX, viewed Saprykina’s decision as “exceedingly harsh,” telling the Post Feb. 4 that there were ample grounds for Silski Visti to appeal.
  
  “I think the decision could eventually be overturned,” she said, indicating that case could open the door for lawsuits against the academy and Personnel magazine for deliberately propagating anti-Semitic sentiments.
  
  U-Media Director Timothy O’Connor said IREX would monitor the case closely. “It is a concern when this type of media issue arises during an election year,” O’Connor said. Our Ukraine leader Viktor
  
  Yushchenko, meanwhile, told the Kyiv weekly Stolichnye Novosti on Feb. 3 that backers of Silski Visti should muster up the courage to apologize to people offended by Yaremenko’s articles. “There are those who would divide us into Russians, Tatars, Jews and Ukrainians -this is a marked card that will be dealt during the presidential election campaign,” said Yushchenko, who expressed regret that Silski Visti, a newspaper sympathetic to the opposition, had fallen for a dirty trick.
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  • 2004.02.05 | СЕМЕН

    Ситуація проста як дрова.

    Лапікура, головний захистник, був у СУДІ газети "СІЛЬСЬКІ ВІСТІ".
    Він так "вправно" вів захист, аби він захищав київську синагогу то її б закрили за "антисемітизм".
    

• 2004.02.05 | Микола

  А Ви шановний самі розсудіть.

  Дуже багато матеріалів на цю тему! І куди тількі Шлаєн дивиться?
  
  http://www.iapm.edu.ua/personal/nn03_journal.htm