The Myrotvorets online project from August 3 became an electronic mass media resource, the MP from the People's Front faction, advisor to the Interior Minister Anton Gerashchenko has stated.
“Thus, all the data released by Myrotvorets are subject to all the provisions of the law on information,” he wrote on his Facebook page.
Myrotvorets on its Facebook page also reported that from August 3 the website myrotvorets.center and all its resources are considered electronic media.
“Relevant amendments will be soon put into provisions about the website,” the report reads.
As reported, in early May the Myrotvorets website posted files with the lists of more than 4,000 journalists who were accredited in the so-called DPR and LPR. The list includes the names of Ukrainian and foreign journalists, their mobile contacts and the period of stay in the territory of DPR and LPR.
The Kyiv city prosecutor’s office filed information on a criminal offense under the Article “Obstruction to the journalists’ legal professional activity” in the unified register of pre-trial investigations on May 11. Ukrainian Human Rights Commissioner Valeria Lutkovska addressed the Ukrainian State Security Service (SBU) and National Police Chief Khatia Dekanoidze with the recommendation to take measures to prevent the illegal collection and distribution of personal information.
On May 13 the Myrotvorets center staff announced its decision to close its website and start preparations to provide free access on the Internet to all the information they collected.
Gerashchenko said on May 19 the Myrotvorets center’s staff decided to resume its work due to a wide feedback in social networks and support of its activity voiced by Ukrainian public figures, politicians, and volunteers.
On May 20 the Myrotvorets website published an updated list of 5,412 journalists accredited with the DPR and on May 24 an additional list of 293 journalists.
Yuriy Tandyt, an advisor to the SBU chief, said on May 21 the SBU was verifying the lists published by Myrotvorets, noting that those who were engaged in spying against Ukraine under the guise of journalistic work would be held liable.
At the same time, the Kyiv police asked the media representatives, the personal information of whom was published on the Myrotvorets website, to come to the investigative department for the purpose of giving testimony as witnesses.
