{{italic title}} {{Short description|Ukrainian newspaper}} '''''Silski Visti''''' ({{langx|uk|Сільські вісті||Rural News}}) 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>{{cite news|author=Mark Almond|title=Conflict in Kiev|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/nov/26/ukraine.guardianletters|accessdate=11 November 2014|work=The Guardian|date=26 November 2004}}</ref>
Ivan Spodarenko served as the editor of ''Silski Visti''.<ref>{{cite news|title=Ukraine's Most Widely Circulated Newspaper Incites Antisemitism|url=http://www.jrtelegraph.com/2007/07/ukraines-most-w.html|accessdate=11 November 2014|work=Jewish Russian Telegraph|date=19 July 2007}}</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>{{cite web|title=Court in Ukraine Shuts Down Largest Opposition Newspaper Silski VISTI|url=http://www.artukraine.com/old/events/silski_visti.htm|publisher=Art Ukraine|accessdate=11 November 2014|date=29 January 2004}}</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>{{cite news|title=Ukraine's president presents award to controversial publisher|url=http://www.worldjewishcongress.org/en/news/5868/ukraine_s_president_presents_award_to_controversial_publisher?print=true|accessdate=11 November 2014|work=World Jewish Congress|date=30 January 2006}}</ref>
In 2006 the editor of the paper, Ivan Spodarenko, was awarded the Hero of Ukraine medal.<ref name=wor/>
==See also== {{Portal|Journalism|Ukraine}} * List of newspapers in Ukraine
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *[http://www.silskivisti.kiev.ua/ ''Silski Visti'' online] {{in lang|uk}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Silski Visti}} Category:1920 establishments in Ukraine Category:Daily newspapers published in Ukraine Category:Newspapers established in 1920 Category:Ukrainian-language newspapers Category:Ukrainian news websites Category:Mass media in Kyiv