Silski Visti
Template:Italic title Template:Short description Silski Visti (Template:Langx) is a Kyiv-based daily newspaper published in Ukrainian.
History and profile
Founded in 1920, Silski Visti is read amongst the rural population, with a circulation of 500,000. It was quite critical of the former President Leonid Kuchma.<ref name=wor/> The paper was among the supporters of the Our Ukraine party in 2004.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Ivan Spodarenko served as the editor of Silski Visti.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In January 2004 Kyiv's Shevchenkivsky district court temporarily suspended the publication of the paper due to the lawsuit filed by the Jewish Antifascist Committee.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> It occurred as a result of the publication of an article which alleged that nearly 400,000 Jews joined in Nazi SS forces during the invasion of Ukraine by Nazi Germany during World War II.<ref name=wor>Template:Cite news</ref>
In 2006 the editor of the paper, Ivan Spodarenko, was awarded the Hero of Ukraine medal.<ref name=wor/>