An international media company in Kiev said it was visited by
unknown people armed with knives, who threatened the employees
against working with Russian TV channels, RT editor-in-chief
Margarita Simonyan wrote on Twitter.
The company, which asked for anonymity citing concerns for own
safety, said it could no longer work with RT.
Intimidation and threats to journalists have lately become common
practice in Ukraine with several Russian journalists coming under
attack from radicals, says RT correspondent Marina Kosareva.
“We have countless of reports of journalists being attacked
by those radicals that we’ve seen on Maidan Square as well,”
she said.
Kosareva cited as an example an incident on March 5 with a
pro-Russian journalist, Sergey Rulev who was beaten up and
threatened by Ukrainian nationalists “just because he dared
to interview riot police [Berkut].”
A correspondent for Russiya-24 TV channel, Artyom Kol said he was
repeatedly threatened by ultra-nationalist group Right Sector who
placed him on a ‘wanted list’ on February 22.