Maidan

As you say Halya, it's very time consuming to counter accusations and I know from experience even as one living in London, that the BBC fails to be accountable to the public in responding to complaints.

Two years ago, I reproduced a story published here, entitled "Death Camps for Children", on the BBC community site. They didn't discuss, they just deleted it as being "inappropriate". It took two years, but eventually the story came out, at another location known as Kalinovka.

http://deti.zp.ua/eng/show_article.php?a_id=5219

The real reason for my story being removed from the BBC is that someone filed a complaint, someone lurking in the shadows sniping from the sidelines, who doesn't want anyone to know how corruption brings vulnerable children to the very brink of death. Most of all he doesn't want his identity know.

His mission is to undermine with false accusation, and does so from the cover of a bogus position with an NGO inside Ukraine, a position which justifies his claim to a business visa.

Worse still he has an accomplice, working as a UK barrister and concealing her professional identity, for approaching the public to make threats of legal action is surely a breach of professional rules.

No doubt he will appear here with the usual accusation and the usual alias. So, when he arrives please demand of him his identity and that of his "legal representative".

Where are our men of integrity, so obviously absent from Ukraine? I write to many, in politics, in government, in business. They claim an interest in Ukraine's democratic evolution but are silent when asked for a response.

Yes, I am deeply ashamed of my spineless country but there is hope, we will prevail.

Jeff