By Vadym RYZHKOV, The Day
Resentful of being cheated by the executive power, employees of Channel
11 went out, with their mouths gagged, last Thursday to the busy intersection
of Dnipropetrovsk's Kirov and Pushkin Streets (photo). The gags read: "Channel
11: we can say nothing."
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."







