Yaroslav Yurchyshyn, an MP from the liberal opposition Holos (Voice) party, now heads the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine’s parliament) Committee on Freedom of Speech and Information, replacing of Nestor Shufrych, an MP from the outlawed Opposition Platform – Fore Life (OPFL) pro-Russian party. Shufrych has recently been charged with treason.
Mykhailo Tkach, an Ukrainska Pravda journalist who reports about corruption, has been attacked near the Tandyr restaurant in the village of Kozyn, Kyiv Oblast. Source: Tkach in a comment for Ukrainska Pravda Details: Around 22:30 on Friday, 17 November, Tkach and his crew were filming near the Tandyr restaurant, where several high-ranking officials from the Prosecutor's Office had been spotted.
Following Ukrainska Pravda's reporting of an attack on journalist Mykhailo Tkach, the Kyiv Oblast police have opened a criminal investigation into an obstruction of journalists' legitimate professional activities.
The UK
National Crime Agency (NCA) has closed an investigation into alleged sanctions
evasion by Russian oligarch Mikhail Fridman, the agency's spokesman told news
agency Bloomberg on Sept. 15.