People’s Self-Defense party demands criminal investigation into panic-sowing declarations by presidential candidate Inna Bohoslovska

November05200921:58

Bohoslovska made her untrue declarations in a live TV program on a popular channel on Friday, claiming multiple plague cases had been diagnosed in Ukraine. Consequently, she is behind the resulting panic, not a local of the Chernihiv oblast who placed rumors about the plague in the Internet and whom the Security Service of Ukraine named Nov. 4 as the initiator of the panic, Hrymchak said.

SBU say they have tracked down the author of anonymous reports on the Internet about Ukrainians who had contracted pneumonic plague, the SBU site Nov. 4 report runs.

The perpetrator had placed information on a site, saying 170 Ukrainians had been taken to hospital suffering from the plague.

Under the law, spreading false information carries a fine or 30 days of corrective labor.

• 01:2907.11.09 UkrToday [***]
• • Now now play fair and play by the rules.
    
    One could argue that Yushchenko is talking up the current flue epidemic to gain maximum political advantage. Attacking your opponents on the basis of specious claims does not help you gain support.
    
    The definition of plague:
    1. A widespread affliction or calamity
    2. A sudden destructive influx or injurious outbreak
    
    There is nothing false and misleading about this.