Petro Poroshenko, apparent winner of the Ukrainian presidential elections, said he plans to keep only one asset, TV Channel 5, and promised that the channel would keep its editorial independence.
"Channel 5 will not be sold. The role the free press played during the Orange Revolution and during our revolution on the Maidan is extremely important," he told at a press conference in Kyiv on Monday.
Poroshenko noted that the foundations of the channel's editorial policy, which prohibit the owner form interfering in it, were signed back in 2003.
"Channel 5 sometimes criticizes me more than others," he said.
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