Under Ukraine’s pre-Maidan criminal regime, any pressure on journalists used to provoke a wave of indignation. This indignation, which came from journalists, human rights defenders and civic activists themselves, even became a precursor to the first Maidan in independent Ukraine — the protests under the banner of “Ukraine without Kuchma”.
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Volodymyr Chemerys: Totalitarian tendencies in post-Maidan Ukraine
EuroMaidan activists rally in central Kyiv. (Kostyantyn Chernichkin)
