Amendment No. 11 | Doc. 13664 | 27 January 2015

Protection of media freedom in Europe

Signatories: Mr Volodymyr ARIEV, Ukraine, EPP/CD ; Mr Boryslav BEREZA, Ukraine, NR ; Mr Gediminas JAKAVONIS, Lithuania, ALDE ; Mr Andriy LOZOVOY, Ukraine, NR ; Mr Serhiy SOBOLEV, Ukraine, EPP/CD ; Ms Olena SOTNYK, Ukraine, NR ; Mr Pavlo UNGURYAN, Ukraine, NR ; Mr Sergiy VLASENKO, Ukraine, NR ; Ms Svitlana ZALISHCHUK, Ukraine, NR ; Mr Emanuelis ZINGERIS, Lithuania, EPP/CD

Origin - 2015 - First part-session

In the draft resolution, after paragraph 3, insert the following paragraph:

"In the course of the annexation of the Crimea by the Russian Federation as well as the outbreak of the conflict in eastern Ukraine, Russian media and journalists were used by the Russian authorities as a tool in an information war against Ukraine, namely to conduct subversive activity, to destabilize the internal situation, to escalate violence, to support the activities of illegal armed groups and to conduct anti-state propaganda and disinformation etc."

Explanatory note

This amendment condemns information warfare and the media used to justify the illegal annexation of the Crimea and Russia's aggression in Eastern Ukraine.