Dnipropetrovsk Journalists Protest With Mouths Gagged 

Neither the President's promise to "look into the situation," nor the written assurances of the telecommunications inspectorate that it is allowed to temporarily operate the Channel 11 transmitter from March 18, yielded any results, for the rooftop transmitting antennas had been dismantled the previous night by order of one Dnipropetrovsk oblast leader.

As a keepsake, the journalists had their photos taken under the stone bas-relief of Lenin, as if reminding us that his dictatorial ways are still "more alive than all who live."