The Prosecutor's office of St. Petersburg started the revision of the TV channel "Rain" in the result of the survey, devoted to the 70th anniversary of lifting the siege of Leningrad.

About it it is told on the website of the office. The audit was initiated by the claims of siege, perturbed by the question, " Rain", "should give Leningrad to save hundreds of thousand of lives."

"The Prosecutor's office of Saint-Petersburg carries out the inspection of probable violations: moved on whether the TV channel all the faces valid before the memorable date of the final breakthrough of the blockade", - is told in the news. The Prosecutor's office reported that the war veterans "are outraged by the scandalous survey of " Rain " channel". "It is sacrilege to ask this question, in a country that suffered the greatest sacrifice to defeat fascism, and to free the world from fascism", - quotes Agency the complaint veterans.

on January 29, Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg have begun to Russian Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika with the desire to punish the " Rain " channel "through closure". The deputies declared that the survey offends the memory of those killed in the siege of people. Own review of the incident on "Rain" conducts media monitoring Agency. The Agency reported that the incident lies rather in the moral-ethical"than legal.

On the evening of January 29, it became known that "Rain" eliminate from their own packages several cable operators, including "AKADO", "Rostelecom" and "NTV-plus". With all this, the users of social networks has informed, that in the network of "Rostelecom" and "NTV-plus", "Rain" some time later joined back. The main commercial TV operator "Tricolor TV" announced that he was not going to disable the "Rain" of personal networks.

Internet users massively condemned disable broadcast "Rain" and called for a boycott of operators that have denied the TV channel. Explaining the actions of the operators, the General Director of "Rain" Natalya Sindeeva said that they were working on the orders from above and that the question about disabling the TV station lies only in the political but not legal level. Press Secretary of President of Russia Dmitry Peskov has declared that the Rain" "passed all the faces valid", but noted that the survey, in his view, is not a violation of any law.
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