13. The decree asked for compulsory registration of
Web sites, and specified criteria that sites had to
respect before being launched. International Press
Institute, 2005 World Press Freedom
Review:,Ukraine, http://www.freemedia.at/cms/
ipi/freedom_detail.html?country=/KW0001/KW0003/
KW0087/&year=2005 (last accessed May 2, 2007).
14. Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, Human
Rights in Ukraine: IV. Right to Privacy, February 7,
2006, http://www.khpg.org/en/index.php?id=
1151854687 (last accessed May 2, 2007).
15. This justification in the draft decree was in part
drawn from an existing law, the “Law on Operative
Investigative Activity” of February 18, 1992, No.
2135-XII.
16. The agency is established by the Law of February
23, 2006, No. 3475-IV. For excerpts of the law translated into English, see Yaroslav the Wise Institute of
Legal Information, The Law of Ukraine: On the State
Service for Special Communications and Information
Protection of Ukraine, http://www.welcometo.kiev.ua/
pls/ili/docs/a_law_eng/E3475-IV.html (last accessed
May 2, 2007).
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