Tag Archives: Ukraine
| Pressure at Ukrainian media grows up
The 112 Ukraine TV channel has been an object of authority’s pressure since last year. This is not opposition TV channel, but it carries out an independent informational policy. On September 27 its management stuff issued a statement in order to remind this difficult situation.
They say:
“The 112 Ukraine TV channel does not cease to be under pressure from the authorities, and today the depriving of the television broadcasting licenses is already considered by the court. In addition, 112 Ukraine is constantly forced to fend off attempts to manipulate the issue of its acquisition by one or other odious businessman.
Polish and Ukrainian governments use World War II war crimes to promote nationalism
By Jason Melanovski
Relations between NATO member Poland and the US-backed Poroshenko regime in Kiev have soured in recent months, as the two right-wing governments attempt to whip up nationalist support for their own corrupt governments by commemorating war crimes perpetrated during World War II against ethnic Poles and Ukrainians by right-wing paramilitary groups.
In Ukraine: Independence From the People
An empty pathos: Impressions from Independence Day in Kyiv
| A new book about Ukrainian crisis and Western propaganda
Prof. Ivan Katchanovski from Ottawa became known for his investigations in Maidan massacre in Ukraine. He proved to be skillful in scientific study of various media sources. Now he demonstrates his professional skill in a new book about Ukrainian crisis.
A new academic book by a leading American scholar of political communication examines the Western media coverage of the conflict in Ukraine and the role of propaganda in shaping the narrative about the conflict. There is a big disparity between Western academic studies of the conflict in Ukraine and the Western media coverage of the conflict. This also concerns academics who are often published and interviewed by the mainstream media as experts but who have not conducted any academic studies about the conflict in Ukraine.
This book explores contemporary propaganda and mainstream Western news media, with reference to the Ukraine crisis. It examines Western media narratives of the immediate causes of the crisis, the respective roles of those who participated in or otherwise supported the demonstrations of 2013–2014 – including US-backed NGOs and rightist militia – and the legitimacy, or otherwise, of the destabilization of the democratically elected Yanukovych government. It considers how the crisis was contextualized with reference to broader themes of competition for power over Eurasia and the Washington Consensus. It assesses accounts of the role of Russia and of ethnic Russian Ukrainians in Crimea, Odessa and the Donbass and traces how Western mainstream media went out of their way to demonize Vladimir Putin. The book deconstructs prevailing Western narratives as to the reasons for the shooting down of Malaysian Airways flight MH17 in July 2014, and counters Western media concentration on the issue of culpability for the attack with an alternative narrative of egregious failure to close down civilian air space over war zones. From analysis of these discourses, the book identifies principles of post-2001 Western conflict propaganda as these appeared to play out in Ukraine.
| What Business in Ukraine is Really Like
By Thomas Theiner
Every roulette table in Las Vegas is more promising than Ukraine. I know from personal experience; I lived in Kyiv for five years and knew a few dozen foreigners who invested in Ukraine.
To be fair, Brooke does mention red tape, corruption, and the difficulty of finding reliable, high-quality owner and management teams, but he fails to elaborate on these three aspects. Each on its own will ruin your investment in Ukraine; taken together, they will ruin you, too.
