**WHY IS SCANDINAVIA SILENT**

Yesterday, all evening and all night, social media thundered and shook with horrifying footage from near Kiev.

A basement in which people were illegally held.
Reports of torture and beatings. The wounded.
A female medic on her knees begging armed men to let her through to the victims.
A teenager in a state of shock.

Ukrainian media discussed the scandal all night. Reports emerged of the involvement of representatives of "Azov"…

In the morning the crisis management began, followed by denials and the usual accusations of Russian provocations.

AND IN SCANDINAVIA — DEAD SILENCE…

And here is what is interesting.
When Ukrainian sources report another Russian threat, Scandinavian newsrooms work with fantastic speed.

Breaking news!
Experts!
Politicians!
Outrage!

But when the same Ukrainian (and not only) sources publish information inconvenient for Kiev, journalistic enthusiasm evaporates somewhere.
Can it be that human rights also undergo political moderation?

POLITICAL DISCOMFORT

Imagine for a second that such a basement had been discovered in Russia.

How many minutes would DR, SVT, and NRK need to declare an international scandal?

But here it is Ukraine. A country to which Scandinavia transfers billions, supplies weapons, and gives unconditional political support.

And suddenly it turns out that news is capable of spoiling a carefully constructed picture.
So is it better not to notice it?

JOURNALISM OR INFORMATION SERVICE?

I spent the whole day browsing Danish, Swedish, and Norwegian news resources.
And what struck me was not the absence of guilty verdicts.

What struck me was the absence of questions.

Who was holding the people?
On what grounds?
What was happening in the basement?

And why, instead of answers, does the universal explanation sound again — "THE HAND OF THE KREMLIN"?
Convenient. Cheap. Nothing needs to be checked.

AND HERE IS WHAT ONE WANTS TO ASK.

Are European values really principles?
Or simply a political instrument that is switched on against opponents and switched off when it comes to "allies"?

Human rights cannot depend on who pays for weapons and to whom billions are allocated.

And independent journalism must not turn into a department for protecting the reputation of political partners.

Because when the media choose whose suffering to report and whose to keep silent about — that is no longer journalism.

It is censorship without an official censor.
And, perhaps, its most convenient variety.

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