The U.S. " strongly recognise the illegal closure in the Crimea of several media, as well as among them, Crimean Tatar, reported in the circulation Department of state. "We strongly condemn yesterday's closure of the Russian occupation authorities many major Crimean Tatar mass media, including the APR TV, the last independent television station that broadcast to the Crimean Tatar inhabitants of the Crimean news Agency (QNA), newspaper" Avdet ", radio station "Maidan" and several other ", - said in the appeal. the state Department stressed that the closure of the media is in a number of actions to limit the freedom of speech in Crimea, and called for the immediate restoration of their work. Also in the international Ministry again told about "discrimination, intimidation and harassment" of the Crimean Tatars, and Also confirmed the position about the fact that North America is considered the Crimea as part of Ukraine and will continue to maintain its sovereignty and territorial integrity. ATR worked in Crimea 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. TV channel stopped broadcasting on the night of April 1. First of Commissioners of the ATR channel revealed that the launch was delayed their application for registration. For its part, North Korea has invited the envoy of the OSCE on freedom of the media Dunja Mijatovic to attend the service to explain the situation to stop the broadcasting of the Crimean Tatar TV channel ATR in the Crimea.