Controversies

Allegations of retaliation against editors and website censorship

On 28 August 2013, Oksana Romanyuk of the Institute of Mass Information publicly alleged that UNIAN managers had confined editors who had previously raised censorship concerns and pressured them to acknowledge reassignment from the website department to a television-news-monitoring department. The journalists described the action as retaliation against critics and an effort to establish comprehensive editorial control over the website. The supplied reference does not establish a final independent finding on the allegations.