The news website Euromaidan Press received multiple legal claims after releasing an investigative series about the Russian oligarch Oleg Boyko, chief editor Alya Shandra reported to the Institute of Mass Information.
Shandra said that the team had released the first two parts of the investigation about Oleg Boyko, his European business network and legal gaps in the Western sanctions, on 1 and 2 June 2026. The third episode of the series is now being prepared for release.
Shandra said that within five days after the release of the first two episodes, the team received three legal claims, which, according to her, came from a coordinated group of lawyers in different jurisdictions.
On 2 June in Poland, the law firm Lach Janas Biernat (attorney Dawid Biernat), acting on behalf of “Evapify Poland sp. z o.o.”, demanded that the 2 June article be taken down within two days and an apology be posted on the website’s main page in a specific format.
In the second claim, that arrived on the same day, Lach Janas Biernat demanded that all references to another defendant, Łukasz Notopulos, be deleted or the articles taken down within 24 hours.
On 8 June, the team received another claim, this time from Ukraine: by the law firm Burchills Ukraine, which represents Oleg Boyko’s interests. It contained a demand to delete both articles, post a pre-approved retraction, and refrain from releasing the third episode of the investigation.
Euromaidan Press said that some of the claims had come with warnings of potential complaints to hosting providers, Meta and Google platforms, and search engines in case the demands are not met. The team also views the demand to cancel the continuation of the series as censorship.
Shandra says that the team has already responded to some of these claims, saying that the article would remain online in its current version and that the news outlet did not plan to post apologies or remove mentions any persons from the article. Instead, the team offered to grant the persons in question the right to respond in accordance with journalism standards.
