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Ukraine threatens to ban media site for showing video of top communist
Ukrainian Communist Party leader Petro Symonenko

UKRAINE is threatening to ban a media site under its notorious “decommunisation” law – for showing footage of Communist Party leader Petro Symonenko.

The Ministry of Justice has summoned managers from news site GolosUA to explain their compliance with the 2015 law.

The ministry says it was alerted by the security service to the video of Mr Symonenko delivering a message on the 75th anniversary of Nazi Germany’s surrender to the Soviet Union.

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