Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko has ignored calls from most major human rights and civic organizations and signed into law a dangerous bill which could be used to put pressure on NGOs, investigative journalists or activists, especially those most actively seeking to expose and eradicate corruption. He has in short allowed a law which his predecessor Viktor Yanukovych, now in hiding in Russia, would be proud of.
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This photo, released by the press-service of the Ukrainian president on March 15, 2017, shows Petro Poroshenko, the president of Ukraine.
