Maidan

We are extremely grateful to Kristin Zeier, Editor of the English Page of Deutsche Welle for issuing an apology and removing misleading information about the Hitler doll from the DW site. We look forward to the Daily Mail’ and Daily Telegraph following this good example.

The four main media outlets - BBC. Deutsche Welle, the Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail - which posted inaccurate and misleading information about a Hitler doll have now removed the offending material. We repeat our call for a public apology and our intention to approach the press complaints bodies if an apology is not forthcoming.

On a Hitler doll / model, apologies for spreading misleading information from the BBC and calls on Deutsche Welle, the Daily Mail and the Daily Telegraph to follow suit

It is galling that you can buy the doll in one shop in Kyiv, as well as in England, the USA and other countries. I don’t think I will ever fathom how people can buy figures of Hitler and Stalin. However something else remains quite incomprehensible. How can you manufacture a sensation based on lies at the expense of a nation which suffered from fascists and butchers of all breeds?

As Victory Day approaches, we believe it fitting in remembrance of all victims of Nazism in Ukraine to take all measures to clear the Internet of profoundly offensive and misleading comments about the Hitler doll. We give sample letters to send to all concerned

We warmly welcome the initiative taken by Trumpet.com in withdrawing their article about figurines of Hitler having arrived in Ukrainian shops because the “source material that the article was based on was both inaccurate and misleading”. We look forward to similar steps from the BBC, the UK newspapers Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail, Deutsche Welle, and all others.

We are calling on all those concerned that information reported by the media is accurate and objective to help us ensure the same. We do not have the financial resources of the major media outlets. We can and will “fight” them one way only - with the truth.

We will be asking how the BBC came to use the news report of a Russian television company reporting on a story about Ukraine. Used it, we would add, without any reference to its source, and with at least one crucial omission. Of no less interest is how a UK newspaper could have quoted as its source yet seriously distorted a Ukrainian newspaper article. In fact, general bemusement is difficult to avoid over the fact that not one of these media outlets would appear to have checked any of the information they reported on site

I would ask Yury Lutsenko and all those calling for the reinstatement of the death penalty to just type in the following words on Google: DNA, wrongful, prison. Or try torture and confession. You’ll read enough arguments to last a lifetime.

On 22 April 2008 the European Court of Human Rights decided that Dilshod Kurbanov, whose extradition on politically motivated charges of a religious nature is demanded by the Uzbekistan authorities, must not be extradited from Russia pending further notification