The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe has called on Ukraine’s government to refrain from laws limiting free media and free flow of information.
The OSCE issued a statement Friday in response to amendments that Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko signed earlier this week to the country’s law on cinema. According to the OSCE, those amendments tighten restrictions on the distribution and broadcast of certain audio-visual materials, allowing a “blanket ban” of all Russian films produced or released since the beginning of 2014, the year Russia annexed Crimea in a move described by Western nations as illegal and illegitimate.
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Source: Voice of America
