Re: One more newspaper prohibited (not)

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: : Is there a reason to say "one more newspaper prohibited" when nothing like that ever happened? I agree with Yanko, this "barring" does look like a clear provocation by some "rabotiagas". Who said KGB doesn't exist anymore? : Видавець англомовної газети Kyiv Post американський громадянин Джед Санден, якому у вівторок було заборонено в'їзд в Україну на один рік, повернувся сьогодні до Києва по тому, як заборону було скасовано. Дозвіл повернутися до Києва пан Санден отримав після втручання чільних американських дипломатів напередодні візиту Держсекретаря Сполучених Штатів Медлен Олбрайт, яка прибуває в Україну завтра. В інтерв'ю Бі-Бі-Сі пан Санден сказав, що не має жодної інформації про причини його затримання і про те, хто віддав таке розпорядження. : Probably the provocation was organized to divert : attention, time and efforts of the U.S. diplomats from other issues which the provocateurs don't want to see considered by the U.S. and Ukraine. : Well, fortunately, some of those Soviet patriots who did this are going to be fired pretty soon from their government positions (Ukrainian that is). : Certainly, leaving their positions is their best option now as the case will be investigated for long time. : : Btw, guys, read this: <a href=http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/reuters20000412_4346.html>Ukraine lifts : : entry bar against U.S. : : publisher</a> : : : It seems that somebody wants to increase its worlwide rating # 6 as Enemy of Journalists. : : : KIEV, Ukraine (AP) - The American publisher of an English-language newspaper in Ukraine was barred from entering the country for one year, the border guards' command said Wednesday. : : : A spokesman for the border guards said Jed Sunden was barred following ``a decision from one of the competent organs.'' In Ukraine, the phrase usually refers to security services. : : : Ukraine's State Security Service declined comment on the case and the Foreign Ministry said it had nothing to do with the decision to bar Sunden, who founded the Kyiv Post weekly in 1995. : : : The refusal comes two days ahead of U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's planned visit to Kiev. : : : Sunden, speaking in a telephone interview from Kiev's Boryspil Airport, said he arrived Tuesday afternoon and was told he could not enter the country. : : : ``This action on the eve of the visit of Madeleine Albright could be seen as part of a larger crackdown on free press and economic reform,'' Sunden said. : : : Sunden said he had heard unofficially that Ukrainian authorities had placed him on a blacklist on March 31, two days after he left the country for a visit home. : : : A U.S. Embassy spokeswoman in Kiev, said the embassy had expressed concern to senior Ukrainian government officials and asked for immediate explanations. : : : Centrist and leftist opposition media in Ukraine have long accused President Leonid Kuchma's government of trying to suppress them. The government says many media outlets make persecution charges in order to cover their own professional and financial mistakes. : : : The Kyiv Post doesn't have a history of clashes with the government, and is not affiliated with the political and financial groups that control many media outlets in Ukraine.

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