District administrative court of Kyiv on the suit of the National Council of Ukraine on television and radio was banned relay fifteen Russian channels in broadcasting and cable networks in the country. " at this stage, the monitoring of Ukrainian and Russian channels, which are information - feature character ", - said the Head of the national Council on television and radio broadcasting of Ukraine Yuriy Artemenko, ITAR-TASS reported. A ban were " 1st channel. Global network ", " RTR - Planeta ", " NTV-Mir ", " Russia-24 ", " TVCI ", " Russia-1 ", NTV, TNT, " Petersburg-5 ", " Star ", " Ren-TV ", " RBC-TV ", Life News, Russia Today and in History. First Authorized National Council on television and radio, together with the Ministry of internal Affairs have checked about 5 thousand Public institutions, for compliance with requirements on prohibition of relay Russian channels. The check was in hotels, recreation, entertainment and other public institutions. A systematic process of banning the broadcasting of Russian TV channels goes to Ukraine since the beginning of the conflict in the East of the country. The head of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of Russia S. Lavrov Century before that, they stated that the prohibition of channels will become a serious infractions of international norms. The Commissioner of foreign Affairs for human rights Konstantin Dolgov noted that disabling channels is an attack on freedom of Ukrainians who can watch Russian TV. The OSCE also urged the Ukrainian authorities not to block the channels.
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