Publication Date:
Tue, 2011-04-19 01:44
Brian Bonner, the editor of the Kyiv Post, says he was fired following an argument with the newspaper’s British owner, Mohammad Zahoor.
Bonner says Zahoor demanded the newspaper kill a sensitive interview with the country’s Agriculture Minister, Mykola Prysyazhnyuk, over the government’s controversial ban on grain exports.
The interview ran late on Friday.
The staff said in a statement they are producing articles but refusing to publish their material until Bonner is reinstated.
The Kyiv Post is owned by Zahoor’s ISTIL Group.
He could not immediately be reached for comment.
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