Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine, Minister of culture Vyacheslav Kirilenko supported the granting of the Crimean Tatar TV channel ATR capabilities to broadcast in Ukraine.

TV Channel worked due to licenses issued by the authorities of Ukraine. At the same time the RF law requires that you obtain a Russian license. Those media that do not, will not be able to continue working. Television Channel ceased broadcasting at midnight on the night of April 1. ATR was not able to be re-registered in accordance with Russian legislation, said the General Director of TV channel Elizara Islyamov.

"The ATR channel need to Express support and to provide them with the opportunity to broadcast in Ukraine," Kirilenko wrote on his page on Twitter on Wednesday.

first Vice-Premier of the Crimean government - the Minister of internal policy, information and communication, Crimea Dmitry Polonsky said ATR TV Channel cannot be re-registered by the fault of its owners. According to his statement, for some strange reason, which was most likely lies in the desire to provoke an artificial conflict, as well as among them on a national basis, the owners and the management of the channel deliberately failed in the allotted time appropriate to draw up the documents for re-registration.

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