The national Council of Ukraine on television and radio on Thursday decided again to start broadcasting in the country, said at a press conference the head of the regulator Yuri Artemenko.

before the national Council has announced its intention to apply to court with a demand to stop broadcasting programs of TV channel " Belarus 24 " square of Ukraine. The national Council was suspected of content transfer " human Rights - a look into the world " " anti-Ukrainian propaganda and distortion of information about political events in Ukraine." The national state broadcasting company of Belarus took this program with ether.

" We again monitored the TV channel " Belarus " in the period from 26 November to 3 December. We said that the broadcast of this program is terminated and the host, accordingly, dismissed. We guarantee that in future broadcast will be carried out in Accordance with Ukrainian legislation ", - said the head of the national Council.

" for this reason, today We made a conclusion that " Belarus 24 " is returned in the Ukrainian ether is such that meets the requirements of the European Convention on transfrontier television and the applicable law of Ukraine, " he continued Artemenko.

in early autumn, the national broadcasting Council of Ukraine said that fifteen Russian TV channels banned broadcasting in the country. The list includes " 1st channel. Global network ", " Russia 24", Rossiya 1, NTV, NTV-Mir ", " TNT ", " Star ", " Ren-TV ", " Life News ", " RT " and " History ".

The Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation called off Russian TV channel attack on freedom of the media, and the General Director of the " First channel " Konstantin Ernst tried to persuade the Ukrainian government to reverse a decision contrary to the norms of international Rights and interests of clients.

the OSCE representative on freedom of the media Dunja Mijatovic also expressed concern about the requirement of the Ukrainian national Council on television and radio to national cable network to stop broadcasting of Russian TV channels. She called the ban broadcast programs without legitimate " form of censorship ". According to the Mijatovic, considerations of national security may not lead to the infringement of the freedom of the media.

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