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Ukrainian social media users get five years in prison for ‘supporting separatism’

February 7, 2017

A Ukrainian court sentenced two men to five years in prison for “supporting separatism” on the social media website VKontakte on February 6. The men, both residents of Sloviansk, were arrested by Ukraine’s Security Services in April 2015. They were convicted by a Sloviansk city court under an article of Ukraine’s penal code, “Infringement of the …

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Ukraine sues Booking.com for operating in Crimea

December 26, 2016

The Crimea prosecution office, whose role is to apply Ukrainian law in a territory which has been under Russian control since March 2014, has filed a lawsuit against Booking.com. The company, which is incorporated in the Netherlands, is accused of “violating Ukrainian and international law, as well as sanctions, not only by cooperating with bandit …

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Ukrainian IT business targeted by indiscriminate secret service pressure

October 27, 2016

Since early 2010 the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) has been checking the legality of the work of IT companies. While some cases of large investigation program towards big IT-companies proved to be justified, law-abiding IT businesses have also been targeted. Among the latest examples are Adamant, Lucky Labs, KM Core, and V.O.K.S. Sadly enough, the guilt of IT-companies …

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Ukrainian citizen arrested while smuggling cigarettes by drone

October 19, 2016

Last week a resident of Chop, a town in Western Ukraine, was arrested while trying to smuggle 16 cartons of cigarettes Marlboro to Hungary by drone. Another 16 cartons which were probably supposed to be “transported” too were confiscated along with the drone at the time of arrest.

US authorities charge Ukrainian owner of top file-sharing site with copyright infringement

July 27, 2016

U.S. authorities have charged a Ukrainian citizen, the alleged owner of the world’s most visited illegal file-sharing website KickassTorrent, with criminal copyright infringement and have seized domain names associated with the website. Artem Vaulin, 30-year-old from Kharkiv, was arrested on July 20 in Poland and was charged under a criminal complaint filed in the U.S. …

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Ukraine’s security service takes down 30,000 websites to fight “pro-Russian propaganda”

April 28, 2015

Ukraine’s State Security Service (SBU) was initially aiming to shut down five websites that had been allegedly spreading pro-Russian views about the conflict in Ukraine. Instead, they ended up crushing thousands of other websites, halting business and other activities of the Ukrainian segment of the Internet. In an attempt to block five allegedly anti-Ukrainian websites, …

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