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Local news website in Ukraine torched, server attacked

New York, February 23, 2018–The Committee to Protect Journalists condemned last night’s arson attack on the independent, investigative news website Chetverta Vlada (Fourth Power) in Ukraine’s western city of Rivne.

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Cars drive on a highway on a sunny winter day in Kiev, Ukraine in January 2017. Igor Guzhva, editor-in-chief of the Kiev-based news website Strana, fled from Ukraine to Austria after receiving death threats, according to a statement published on the site.(Reuters/Gleb Garanich)

Editor flees Ukraine after receiving death threats

Kiev, February 1, 2018–The Committee to Protect Journalists called today on Ukrainian authorities to investigate death threats made against Igor Guzhva, editor-in-chief of the Kiev-based news website Strana. Guzhva fled to Austria after receiving death threats, and amid “unprecedented pressure from the [Ukrainian] authorities,” according to a statement from the editor that was published yesterday…

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