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.
After NGOs and the EU, UN condemns Germany’s crackdown on Palestine Solidarity, writes LEON WYSTRYCHOWSKI
The decision highlights the tension between freedom of expression and the state’s role in shaping historical memory at former concentration camps, reports LEON WYSTRYCHOWSKI
In an address to the Communist Party’s executive at the weekend international secretary KEVAN NELSON explained why the communists’ watchwords must be Jobs not Bombs and Welfare not Warfare
As the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia rebuilds support through anti-cuts campaigns, the government seeks to silence it before October’s parliamentary elections through liberal totalitarianism, reports JOHN CALLOW


