Journalists risk their lives in rebel-held east Ukraine
Interview with Evgen Schibalov, a Ukrainian journalist formerly based in Donetsk by Kira KirschbachOver the past two years the pro Russian insurgents in the self-styled People’s Republics of Donetsk and Lugansk in eastern Ukraine have created an infrastructure that operates in isolation from the rest of Ukraine.
Front running Urkaine 26 Mai 2016 (Map: www.mil.gov.ua)
The newly-created media landscape plays a special role in this. When war broke out, Ukrainian media were forced to leave Donetsk. Their buildings were over-run with unknown armed men. Their transmitters in the rebel-held areas no longer worked. In their place new media sprang up. In…
