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negative tendencies” regarding press protections in Ukraine,”
concluding that the safety of journalists deteriorated in 2003,
compared to the previous year.
Three journalists were killed or died in unclear circumstances
in Ukraine in 2003, according to IMI, which criticized the
government for failing to solve one of the country’s highest-profile
crimes, the abduction of opposition journalist Georgiy Gongadze
in 2000.
Yeltsov, then a freelance journalist, that year authored an
investigative report about high-level corruption for a Russian Web
site. Gongadze re-published the work on his Ukrainska Pravda
(Ukrainian Truth) Web site on Sept. 4, and vanished two weeks
later.
Western governments expressed concerns about journalists’
safety in Ukraine after Gongadze’s decapitated corpse turned up in
a forest outside Kyiv.
Through President Leonid Kuchma was vowed to strengthen
media protections, attacks on journalists have become more - not
less – frequent.
By Peter Byrne
From Kyiv Post

Assignments
1. Learn the glossary.
Investigative – involving examining an event or a situation to
find out the truth.
Bullet – a small mental object that is fired from a gun.
Corruption – dishonest or illegal behavior, especially of
people in authority.
To allege – to say something is true or that someone has done
something wrong even though this has not been proved
Impropriety – behavior or a particular action that is
unacceptable according to moral, social, or professional
standards

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