Several pieces of media legislation were passed, including laws on access to information, protections for journalists who are attacked in the course of their work, and the privatization of publicly owned print media.
Freedom House
23 April 2016
Joint research report by the Institute of Mass Information and GfK Ukraine
Institute of Mass Information
16 March 2016
"Online journalists, activists, and bloggers in eastern Ukraine were subject to extralegal intimidation and were beaten, tortured, kidnapped"
Freedom House
31 October 2015
Ranked 125th in annual global media freedom report
Freedom House
1 May 2015
Police cede Independence Square to protesters after two brutal, yet failed attempts to clear downtown core
Freedom House
1 May 2014
"Police, security services accused of assaulting reporters"
Committee to Protect Journalists
11 February 2014
Ranked 127th in annual press freedom index
Reporters Without Borders
1 February 2014
Government bans all public events to block Pride Equality March
Human Rights Watch
22 January 2014
In spite of the generally high quality of legislation, the reality of implementation is less impressive. Citizens may freely express their views, and collect and disseminate information, but access to free and pluralistic media and to public information held by the authorities is inadequate. Journalists’ working conditions are not secure enough to work safely and remedies for violations of journalists’ rights or attacks on journalists are ineffective.
Freedom House
2 December 2013
Ranked 131st in annual global media freedom report
Freedom House
1 May 2013
"Academic freedom has come under pressure since Yanukovych took power"
Freedom House
16 January 2013
The Institute of Mass Information has created a map highlighting press freedom violations related to the October 28 parliamentary election.
Institute of Mass Information
30 October 2012
Government officials play down incidents of violence against journalists, claim most attacks "not work-related"
Committee to Protect Journalists
21 February 2012
"Negative tendencies" towards suppression of freedom of expression follow Viktor Yanukovych’s installation as president
Reporters Without Borders
26 January 2012