Media: the issue of license renewal of the Ukrainian channel "inter" will decide on may 28
The national Council for television and radio broadcasting of Ukraine on may 28 will see the issue of renewal of license of TV channel " inter ", informs the Internet Edition ".
before the Committee of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on issues of public safety appealed to the police forces to stop the work of the TV channel "inter" and the newspaper " Vesti ", because these media are a danger to state security, destabilize the social situation ".
"the Council has received two petitions of a number of people's deputies from fractions "Popular front" and " Batkivshchyna ", which laid out a case for renewal of the license of " inter ". The Council takes time to process those facts ", - is informed in the report.
the journal emphasizes that, According to the head of the national Council Yuriy Artemenko, the Council has become a new information about the fact that "inter" during the contest received a license to broadcast 20 hours a day, which is then without competition was expanded to 24 hours a day.
before the national Council for television and radio broadcasting of Ukraine issued the "inter" the alert program, with the participation of Russian stars, and among Ukrainian politicians erupted on this issue a series of opponents. In addition, the Prosecutor General's office found the ransom a businessman Dmytro Firtash of actions "inter the Russian" First channel "" financing of terrorism ".
in the newspaper "Vesti" was first searched. The print Edition is published the largest circulation among all daily Newspapers in Ukraine - 350 thousand copies daily. In the Council of national security and defense Council (NSDC) said that searches were conducted due to suspicion of illegal financing of the newspaper. In the editorial linked the incident with the criticism of the current government yesterday of presidential elections in may last year, which defeated Petro Poroshenko.
the Commissioner of the OSCE on freedom of the media Dunja Mijatovic stated before, that reasons of national security cannot lead to the denial of media freedom.