How the Kyiv Post community is reacting to the newspaper’s change in ownership

Mohammad Zahoor sold the newspaper to Adnan Kivan, a millionaire businessman from Odesa and native of Syria on March 21. Kivan is the Kyiv Post’s third owner in the newspaper’s 23-year history.

Kivan’s main business is construction, but he also owns media assets in Odesa. Besides the Kyiv Post, he owns a local TV station Channel 7 and is associated, media watchers say, with the online Ukrainian Information Service.

Kyiv Post supporters raised concerns about what the new ownership will mean. Here is a sampling of the reaction.