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Sanction NYT now, Russia suggests after Ukraine pres. accuses newspaper of 'hybrid war'
The Ukrainian president accused the New York Times of engaging in a 'hybrid war' against his country after it published a damning report on corruption. Russia suggested that Kiev should now ask Washington to impose sanctions against NYT editors.
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The opinion piece was published on Thursday just as Poroshenko was heading to the international nuclear security conference in Washington. He was asked to comment on the NYT criticism during a media conference – and practically accused the newspaper of being a propaganda vehicle for the Kremlin.
“I know this report. I'd like to give a concrete comment on it. Ukraine today is being targeted with a hybrid war. Including through the mechanism of dissemination of information, which discredits the Ukrainian nation,” he said.
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But in Ukraine some of Poroshenko's own men were not amused.
“Ignoring the opinion of one of the world's leading publications is unwise, to say the least,” Mustafa Nayyem, a prominent Ukrainian journalist, an elected MP in Poroshenko's party, wrote on his Facebook page. “Such failures in communication are signs of detachment from reality, from which all previous presidents of Ukraine suffered.”
https://www.rt.com/news/338212-nyt-corruption-ukraine-poroshenko/
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The opinion piece was published on Thursday just as Poroshenko was heading to the international nuclear security conference in Washington. He was asked to comment on the NYT criticism during a media conference – and practically accused the newspaper of being a propaganda vehicle for the Kremlin.
“I know this report. I'd like to give a concrete comment on it. Ukraine today is being targeted with a hybrid war. Including through the mechanism of dissemination of information, which discredits the Ukrainian nation,” he said.
...
But in Ukraine some of Poroshenko's own men were not amused.
“Ignoring the opinion of one of the world's leading publications is unwise, to say the least,” Mustafa Nayyem, a prominent Ukrainian journalist, an elected MP in Poroshenko's party, wrote on his Facebook page. “Such failures in communication are signs of detachment from reality, from which all previous presidents of Ukraine suffered.”
https://www.rt.com/news/338212-nyt-corruption-ukraine-poroshenko/
Ukraine’s Unyielding Corruption
The Ukrainian Parliament finally voted to oust Ukraine’s odious prosecutor general, Viktor Shokin, on Tuesday. The United States and European countries that have provided aid to Ukraine had long pressed for his dismissal; in his year in office, Mr. Shokin became a symbol of Ukraine’s deeply ingrained culture of corruption, failing to prosecute a single member of the deposed Yanukovych regime or of the current government while blocking the efforts of reform-minded deputies. Alas, nothing is likely to change unless President Petro Poroshenko and Parliament agree to install some real corruption fighters and approve serious judicial reform.
Corruption has been pervasive in Ukraine since independence, fed by close-knit ties between politicians and oligarchs and a weak justice system. The protests in 2014 that led to the removal of President Viktor Yanukovych were largely fueled by popular fury at his monumental corruption and abuse of power. Yet his overthrow has yet to show results.
In a speech in Odessa last September, the United States ambassador, Geoffrey Pyatt, said corruption was as dangerous for Ukraine as was the Russian support for a military insurgency in eastern Ukraine. And on a visit last December, Vice President Joseph Biden Jr. said corruption was eating Ukraine “like a cancer.” Among the examples Mr. Pyatt cited was the seizure in Britain of $23 million in illicit assets from the former Ukrainian ecology minister, Mykola Zlochevsky; Mr. Shokin’s office, however, declared that there was no case against the minister, and the money was released.
In his last hours in office, Mr. Shokin dismissed the deputy prosecutor general, David Sakvarelidze, a former prosecutor in Georgia brought in by President Poroshenko to fight corruption. And before that, Mr. Shokin had systematically cleansed his office of reform-minded prosecutors. The acting prosecutor general now is Yuriy Sevruk, a crony who can be trusted to continue Mr. Shokin’s practices.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/01/opinion/ukraines-unyielding-corruption.html
The Ukrainian Parliament finally voted to oust Ukraine’s odious prosecutor general, Viktor Shokin, on Tuesday. The United States and European countries that have provided aid to Ukraine had long pressed for his dismissal; in his year in office, Mr. Shokin became a symbol of Ukraine’s deeply ingrained culture of corruption, failing to prosecute a single member of the deposed Yanukovych regime or of the current government while blocking the efforts of reform-minded deputies. Alas, nothing is likely to change unless President Petro Poroshenko and Parliament agree to install some real corruption fighters and approve serious judicial reform.
Corruption has been pervasive in Ukraine since independence, fed by close-knit ties between politicians and oligarchs and a weak justice system. The protests in 2014 that led to the removal of President Viktor Yanukovych were largely fueled by popular fury at his monumental corruption and abuse of power. Yet his overthrow has yet to show results.
In a speech in Odessa last September, the United States ambassador, Geoffrey Pyatt, said corruption was as dangerous for Ukraine as was the Russian support for a military insurgency in eastern Ukraine. And on a visit last December, Vice President Joseph Biden Jr. said corruption was eating Ukraine “like a cancer.” Among the examples Mr. Pyatt cited was the seizure in Britain of $23 million in illicit assets from the former Ukrainian ecology minister, Mykola Zlochevsky; Mr. Shokin’s office, however, declared that there was no case against the minister, and the money was released.
In his last hours in office, Mr. Shokin dismissed the deputy prosecutor general, David Sakvarelidze, a former prosecutor in Georgia brought in by President Poroshenko to fight corruption. And before that, Mr. Shokin had systematically cleansed his office of reform-minded prosecutors. The acting prosecutor general now is Yuriy Sevruk, a crony who can be trusted to continue Mr. Shokin’s practices.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/01/opinion/ukraines-unyielding-corruption.html
