A parliament member of the Party of Regions (the political party Manafort helped create) brought forth a law that lowered criteria for what created libel.
https://nouvellesest.com/2012/09/26/party-of-regions-mp-withdraws-the-law-on-libel/
It was put forth but withdrawn. Read the article & decide for yourself.
from the article:
"It instaured severe sanctions against any act of defamation and attacks against dignity and honor. As for « information published openly in the media », penalties were up to 1.500 times the Ukrainian minimum salary and up to 3 years in jail."
