Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine from the Radical Party faction Dmytro Lynko has confimed that Kyiv-based Strana.ua online newspaper Editor-in-chief Ihor Huzhva demanded payment from him. "I can say Huzvhva personally asked me for money. I can't divulge all the details. I began to receive threats at the end of March. Attempts were made to blackmail me, to get me to pay money so they would not publish compromising materials against me when they were following me. I asked law-enforcement agencies for help and can say that what has happened is the right thing and logical," Lynko told journalists in the Rada in Kyiv on Friday. Lynko said, "In addition, these people are engaged in bribery. They make their money illegally and are financed from Russia. There is proof of this," Lynko said. As earlier reported, Huzhva was arrested in Kyiv on Thursday, June 22, 2017. According to head of Ukraine's Prosecutor General's Office (PGO) Yuriy Lutsenko, Huzhva demanded $10,000 in exchange for not publishing compromising material about him. According to the PGO, photographic and video evidence backs up charges of impropriety.