Brian Bonner is fighting for an independent press in the Ukraine. He is a journalist from America who has been with the Kyiv Post since 2008 as its chief editor (and once before in 1999). In America, he worked mainly for the St. Paul Pioneer Press newspaper, the second largest in Minnesota, for more than 20 years. Moreover has he worked for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe as an election expert and for the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids in Washington, D.C., as associate director of international communications.