A TV set in a flat in Ukraine shows a program with President Viktor Yushchenko. Certain cable operators of southeastern Ukraine have refused to cease broadcast of some TV channels of Russia.
Photo: Sergei Mikheev
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South-East Ukraine Refused to Disconnect Russia's TV Channels
Certain cable operators of southeastern Ukraine have refused to follow the ruling of the National Council for TV Broadcasting, which committed them to cease broadcast of some TV channels of Russia, Segodnya edition reported.
The list of TV channels banned in Ukraine sets forth REN TV, Pervy Channel, Worldwide Net, RTR Planeta and TVTs International. In the National Council, they say that, in time of broadcast, the cable operators tend to violate Ukrainian laws in part of the copyright and don't provide for Ukrainian-language doubling.
Meanwhile, the banned channels still cover Zaporozhie, Odessa, Lugansk, Kharkov, Crimea and other settlements of southeastern Ukraine. The cable operators of Kiev and western Ukraine followed the order of the National Council. But Volya Co. that has the widest subscriber base of Kiev cable TV hasn't switched off Pervy Channel, reasoning that the latter would ultimately agree with the National Council and the claims to it would be dropped.
Renome and the Black Sea companies refused to disconnect Russia's channels in Odessa. In some cities, including Sevastopol, the local authorities passed special rulings to evade executing the National Council's resolution.
Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov vowed earlier that the RF leadership would take efforts aimed at recommencing the broadcast of Russia's TV channels in Ukraine, as the nation of that state "should have access to all mass media."
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