In November the IMI experts recorded 18 cases of violations of press freedom in eight regions of Ukraine. 14 among them are the facts of physical assault against the journalists. This is the data of the monthly monitoring “Press Freedom Barometer” of the Institute of Mass Information (IMI). The most of breaches are identified at […]

the market of online resources is not regulated in Ukraine. Websites are not considered mass media and are not registered as such. They are not bound by law to disclose their contact data and/or owners. According to data of the research by “Reporters without borders” and Institute of Mass Information as of 2017,  top 4 owners […]

This is unlikely that the Project of law #9306 aiming to criminalize defamation will be adopted, as Roman Golovenko, IMI lawyer said regarding the legislative initiative of the PP Bloc (Petro Poroshenko‘s Bloc). “Hypothetically, adoption of such a project of law is unlikely, but if it happens, we could anticipate that different sorts of defamation, […]

The largest share of news in the regional online media reports about crimes and related issues, or covers some emergency events. At that, 70% of news are reprints or “no-legwork” news. These are the results of the research of NGO “Institute of Mass Information”, that was conducted in ten regions of Ukraine in October this […]