A representative of the OPORA Civic Network took comments from the participants of the conflict that took place on October 5 in the Novovolynsk city election commission. Opinions differ… \n \nAs we reported earlier, in the city of Novovolynsk, members of the city election commission had complaints about the work of a journalist of the "Novovolynsk" newspaper, as a result of which a conflict broke out. For objective coverage of this incident, we took a comment from its participants. \nAccording to Lyudmyla Tomchuk, head of the Novovolynsk TEC, during a commission meeting an unknown person entered the room and, without introducing himself or giving warning, began photographing commission members. He did not react to remarks that he had no right to do so and behaved rudely. Therefore, commission members began demanding that this person leave the TEC premises and called a police squad. \nInstead, journalist Anatoliy Bidzyura denies this. According to the journalist, the day before he had interviewed the head of the commission, so she knew him well. In addition, he claims that no commission meeting was being held. Individual TEC members were accepting documents for registration of candidates for deputies from representatives of KUN. A sharp dispute broke out between the "KUN members" and commission members, which is what interested the journalist. Mr. Anatoliy also claims that after remarks from commission members he stopped photographing, presented his press card and tried to cite the provisions of legislation regulating the work of journalists. Instead, individual TEC members were rude to him and, despite his arguments, began demanding that he leave the commission premises. The journalist wanted to call the police so that they would record the fact of obstruction of a journalist's work, however, law enforcement officers arrived earlier on the TEC's call. \nAnton Tsisaruk, adviser to the head of the Volyn Oblast Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, clarified the situation regarding police intervention in this conflict. According to him, law enforcement officers who arrived at the TEC on the call of the commission secretary did not draw up any protocol on an administrative offense against the journalist. The police officers, having questioned all participants of the conflict, limited themselves only to oral explanations. Instead, the facts described by commission members were not confirmed, since law enforcement officers found no hooligan actions in the journalist's actions. The journalist acted in accordance with the law - he was carrying out an editorial assignment. The police also had no questions for TEC members, since the journalist did not write any statement to law enforcement agencies regarding obstruction of his activities. \n \nMore detailed information is available from the coordinator of the civic election observation campaign of the OPORA Civic Network in Volyn Oblast. \nMykhailo Shelep, \ntel.: 067-41-65-086, mike.shelep@gmail.com \n