KIEV: Several dozen radicals in Kiev blocked the entrance to the opposition-friendly broadcaster NewsONE with barbed wire and sand bags on Monday. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko condemned “pressure on the media,” but showed sympathy on Facebook for a “reaction by society”to the Russia-friendly TV station. A pro-Russia separatist movement sprang up in the east of the former Soviet republic in reaction to the 2013-14 Euromaidan uprising, in which protesters demanded Ukraine minimize ties to Russia and orient itself towards the West. Since then, Russia has annexed the region of Crimea from Ukraine and pro-Russia rebels have been fighting a years-long war in the eastern provinces of the country. Broadcasting at the station wasn’t interrupted. — DPA
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