In the capital of the U.S. " strongly recognise the illegal closure in the Crimea of several media, as well as among them, Crimean Tatar, told the U.S. state Department. "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 as if standing in a number of actions to limit the freedom of speech in Crimea, and called for the immediate restoration of their work, reports RIA " Novosti ". 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. Before the European Union Also tried to convince to recover broadcasting Crimean Tatar TV channel. In response to this the authorities of the Republic told that the story is about the manifestation of double standards and selective positions. According to the Deputy speaker of the Crimean Parliament Remzi Ilyasov, the EU does not pay attention to " what is happening in Ukraine ", where " close the newspaper, the TV, when it is impossible besprepjatstvenno to Express what you think ", the BBC reported. ATR worked in Crimea due to licenses issued by the authorities of Ukraine. At the same time the Russian 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. Authorized ATR 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. 10px