Later, in July 1998, the Supreme arbitrage court of Ukraine ruled against this decree, however, the newspaper failed to resume publication. On the 13th of October 1998, the editorial board of the newspaper Kievskie Vedomosti was evicted from rented premises. The pretext for the eviction was the ruling of the Kyiv Arbitrage court which invalidated the agreement between the newspaper editorial board and the proprietor of the building. It is difficult to avoid the conclusion that all these acts were orchestrated. Similar measures are usually not used against newspapers which are loyal to the authorities.
Ukrainian television is a battlefield of incessant political clashes between different forces.
Until 1995 the confrontation continued with variable success, but currently the executive power has broader powers for influencing both private and state-owned TV broadcasters. On the 3rd of January 1995, the president of Ukraine signed a decree on establishment of the State Committee for TV and Radio Broadcasting of the Ukraine. In this way, in the hands of the Chairman of the State Committee, the powers were concentrated to control not only the state-owned electronic media but also the Corporation RRT which carries out distribution of TV and radio signals through the communication lines. It gave an opportunity to defer payment of debts of the state broadcasters for an indefinite period, and to partly cover them by increasing rates for the RRT services for the private TV and radio broadcasters. In June 1995, the Ukrainian National Council for TV and Radio Broadcasting started issuing licences on broadcasting.