The spokesman for this campaign is the news anchor for 5TV, which is owned by former National Security Minister, Petro Oleksiyovych "The Chocolate King" Poroshenko. 5TV news is edited by a former aide to the politician whose only journalistic experience is running "media training programs" for "youth, journalists and politicians" funded by the Adenauer Fund -- which has a journalistic training partnership with Deutshe-Welle, which is the only media outlet reporting this story. A news outlet owned by a politician -- whose involvement is not disclosed in the report on the campaig -- is going to educate the rest of the Ukrainian news media on editorial independence? Not credible. The Kyiv Institute on Mass Information is tied to specific political organizations. Googling up as head of KIMI is a certain Serhiy Taran, who also googles up as a “PORA Political Council member and Chairman of Sociovymir Sociological and Political Studies Centre” — variant: Sociovymir Psychological and Political Studies Center,” cited as the author of various exit polls — and affiliated with the (state-funded) International Institute of Democracy (IDEA). Incomplete disclosure of the institutional affiliations of the people fronting this campaign, and a certain incestuousness between source and the news organization giving it space, make one think an "astroturf" campaign is probably being mounted here. Dollar figures on bribes accepted are trotted out and attributed to "various estimates," which is not proper sourcing for such serious accusations. Which, by the way, are not accusations against anyone in particular: The organization quoted in this one-source story says it "wants to name names." But has yet to do so. This is FUD. Who knows? It may even be FUD on the side of the angels, depending on your hopes and dreams for the future of the radioactive former SSR. But it is not journalism, and its faulty sources undercuts its didactic message about ethical practices and conflicts of interests.