''Silski Visti'' ( uk, Сільські вісті, translated as ''Rural News'') is a

Kyiv Kyiv, also spelled Kiev, is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2021, its population was 2,962,180, making Kyiv the List of European cities by populat ...

-based daily

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published in

Ukrainian Ukrainian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Ukraine * Something relating to Ukrainians, an East Slavic people from Eastern Europe * Something relating to demographics of Ukraine in terms of demography and population of Ukraine * So ...

History and profile

Founded in 1920, ''Silski Visti'' is read amongst the

rural In general, a rural area or a countryside is a geographic area that is located outside towns and cities. Typical rural areas have a low population density and small settlements. Agricultural areas and areas with forestry typically are describ ...

population, with a circulation of 500,000. It was quite critical of the former President

Leonid Kuchma Leonid Danylovych Kuchma ( uk, Леоні́д Дани́лович Ку́чма; born 9 August 1938) is a Ukrainian politician who was the second president of Ukraine from 19 July 1994 to 23 January 2005. Kuchma's presidency saw numerous corrup ...

. The paper was among the supporters of the Our Ukraine party in 2004. Ivan Spodarenko served as the editor of ''Silski Visti''. In January 2004 Kyiv's Shevchenkivsky district court temporarily suspended the publication of the paper due to the lawsuit filed by the Jewish Antifascist Committee. It occurred as a result of the publication of an article which alleged that nearly 400,000

Jews Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The ...

joined in Nazi SS forces during the invasion of Ukraine by

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during

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. In 2006 the editor of the paper, Ivan Spodarenko, was awarded the Hero of Ukraine medal.

References

External links

''Silski Visti'' online
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