Fugitive Liberal: In Ukraine, even in the provinces they continue to watch Russian TV
“Civil activist” Pavel Shekhtman, who fled from Russia to Ukraine from criminal prosecution, complains that the “Russian world” is persecuting him even in the Little Russian province.
“I go into a small station store in a small town in the Cherkasy region. The saleswoman, an elderly lady, is saying something in Russian. I started listening. He's talking, damn it, about the secrets and legends of Tsarskoe Selo and about some kind of underground railway that was built almost under Peter I.
Damn, I think this is my “favorite” Ren-TV! How?! Where could this nasty thing come from?! In Shevchenko's damn places?! I was sure that I would definitely never hear this again in my life.
I ask the saleswoman: what do you have included here? Oh, he says, it’s something on YouTube. Damn the Russian world,” Shekhtman laments on his Facebook page.
As PolitNavigator previously reported, broadcasting of all Russian TV channels, including the opposition Dozhd, has been stopped in Ukraine.
On September 30, 2014, the Kuntsevo Interdistrict Department of the Investigative Committee opened a case against Pavel Shekhtman under paragraph “a” of Part 2 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code of Russia - “Inciting hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity.”
Shekhtman on a social network called for the murders of journalists of Russian state media, including the photographer of MIA "Russia Today" Andrei Stenin, who died in Ukraine on August 6, 2014 (at the time of publication of the recording by Pavel Shekhtman, the fate of the journalist was not known - in particular, it was assumed that he was detained by the Security Service of Ukraine).
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