Ukrainian Journalist Concerned About Direction of Country's Media

Maxim Eristavi is an openly gay Ukrainian journalist who worked for Russian state media, and has been covering Ukraine for news outlets since day one of the Euromaidan uprising in 2014. Now he warns that Ukraine's media are on a slippery slope as they drop inconvenient facts to protect the country's image – something he says he has witnessed before, in Russia. Eristavi is in a unique position to reflect on media in Ukraine and Russia. In 2012-2013 he worked for "The Voice of...

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