Ukrainian Truth. Another post-lesson outing, this time a lecture in honour of Alexander Kryvenko, a journalist who died in an accident in 2003, aged 40. Each year since then, to mark his death, a "Freedom Lecture" has been accompanied by an award for an outstanding Ukrainian journalist. This year the winner is Olena Prytula, Chief Editor of the "Ukrainska Pravda" (Ukrainian Truth) website. The speaker emphasises that Ukrainians should not take their freedoms for granted. This sounds right to me, and not just for Ukrainians. Indeed, the controversy and outrage which followed the tragic abduction and murder of a previous Chief Editor of Ukrainska Pravda, Georgiy Gongadze, in 2000, was one of many factors which fuelled Ukraine's Orange Revolution of 2004. Some the allegations about the Gongadze killing, in turn, were made by a former Russian FSB agent, Aleksander Litvinenko, whofled to the UK in 2000. Litvinenko in turn was murdered - poisoned with polonium - in London in November 2006.  Freedom of speech is something no society can ever take for granted.