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Ukraine: Poroshenko signs new press gag law

UKRAINE’S coup regime has approved a law giving the state sweeping powers to control the media.

The Communist Party of Ukraine (KPU) broke the news on Monday that billionaire President Petro Poroshenko had ratified the legislation passed on February 25.

The “doctrine of national informational safety” law is intended to stop the “dissemination of information prohibited in the Ukraine” and “threats to national interests and national security in the information sphere.”

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