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How Christian conservatives are trying to influence the media in Ukraine

The Novomedia forum in Kyiv offered a close-up look at the communications strategies of internationally connected ultra-conservatives

By Tetiana Kozak
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At the entrance to the Kyiv conference and event centre, copies of the New Testament were on sale alongside a handbook for followers of Ruslan Kukharchuk, entitled ‘The Mandate’, and several books on journalism and “eternal values”, published by his organisation, Novomedia.

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