The Paris-based Freedom Without Borders media watchdog on Feb. 15 published its annual 2010 Press Freedom Index. The Philippines, Ukraine, Greece and Kyrgyzstan all fell sharply in this year’s report. In the Philippines this was due to the massacre of around 30 journalists by a local baron, in Ukraine to the slow and steady deterioration in press freedom since Viktor Yanukovych’s election as president in February, in Greece to political unrest and physical attacks on several journalists, and in Kyrgyzstan to the ethnic hatred campaign that accompanied the political turmoil. Read the report here.
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Report: Ukrainian media in ‘difficult situation’
Ukraine is among countries with a 'difficult situation' in media, according to the latest brief by Reporters Without Borders, a Paris-based media watchdog.
