Ukraine Journalists Detained for Three Hours on the Border
Correspondents of the Ukrainian TV channel 1+1 were going to attend the celebration of anniversary of the death of Mikhail Zhyzneuski, Euromajdan activist; questions occurred if the journalists were allowed to enter Belarus.
Two journalists were going to cover the remembrance day in the village Znamya, Homel region, where the activist was buried.
According to Marichka Padalko, correspondent of 1+1, “Belarusian border guards had questions to journalist Valentina Dobrota. So to say, she was banned entry to Russia. That’s why they doubted of she was allowed to enter Belarus; although she had been accredited by the Belarusian Foreign Affairs Ministry. Then questions of the accreditation were clarified, and then the border guards for long time clarified how to allow the video recording equipment. Finally, three hours later, we were set free,” she said.
Mikhail Zhyzneuski was among the first victims of the shootings in Euromajdan in Kyiv on January 22, 2014. On November 26, 2014 a monument was founded in his honor in Kyiv. The Ministry of Home Affairs of Ukraine confirmed that the Belarusian citizen died of a bullet wound in the heart, and announced that investigation would be held into the murder.