In October, several events marked the future direction of digital rights and media regulation, including the appointment and governmental elevation of Tetiana Berezhna as the person in charge of media policy in the government, the extension of martial law, and the adoption of the state budget in its first reading. Good news came from Strasbourg, where the ECtHR made the first-ever decision on the national regime of sanctions’ imposition, calling for the establishment of the very same safeguards that civil society had been asking for for years. Finally, the Speaker of the Parliament continued his dialogue on the privacy-related rights in the proposed recodified version of the Civil Code.
The most notable events happening in this period were:
- the appointment of the new Vice Prime Minister in charge of cultural policy and media affairs;
- the decision of the European Court of Human Rights, which might reshape the system of sanctions’ imposition (including website blocking) in Ukraine;
- the updates on the process of Civil Code provisions on personal rights recodification;
- the media regulator’s actions against non-registered non-linear audio media services.
This series of digests, produced with the support of International Media Support (IMS), provides an overview of the proposed and adopted legislation in the spheres of freedom of expression, media regulation, privacy and data protection, Internet regulation in general, and the activities of the National Broadcasting Council in the area of Media Law implementation.
As usual, the digest contains references to the documents discussed in the previous issues of the digest and provides a follow-up to the acts and events described therein.
You can access the October 2025 digest here: Digest #28 – October 2025