“Even more anti-Russian censorship!” – action of young students in Kyiv
Kyiv, January 28 (PolitNavigator, Vladimir Raichenko) – The office of the National Council of Ukraine on Television and Radio Broadcasting was sealed with cotton wool.
Thus, activists of the “Vidsich” organization, who had previously gained fame for organizing flash mobs in support of a boycott of Russian-made products, expressed their protest against the excessive, in their opinion, presence of Russian content on the air of Ukrainian TV channels.
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Activists “sealed” the facade of the building with rolled cotton wool, including the front door, to which they attached an orange and black ribbon. On the unfolded rolls, the protesters wrote “Vatrada, don’t cover up Russian propaganda”, “Remove cotton wool from the National Council”. Yuri Artemenko, the chairman of the regulatory body that had previously banned the broadcast of almost all Russian news channels in Ukraine, was asked to go to Russia, and his deputy Olga Gerasimyuk was asked to “clean out the cotton wool.”
A representative of law enforcement agencies asked one of the leaders of the organization, Ekaterina Chepura, to remove the rolls from the main entrance so as not to disturb people if the building suddenly begins to be evacuated in the event of a fire.
“Are you from the police of the Russian Federation, why are you talking to me in Russian? - came the answer. “There will be an evacuation, but people won’t be seriously hurt.”
“The National Rada today is, in fact, a cotton Rada, which is what we want to demonstrate in this way,” explained Leonid Ovcharenko, a representative of the “Vidsich” organization. – We tried for a long time to find mutual understanding with the National Council, submitted the results of monitoring television broadcasts of leading Ukrainian channels. On the channels “Inter”, “Ukraine”, “NTN”, more than 50 percent is occupied by products produced in the Russian Federation, although, according to the law, at least half must be Ukrainian products.”
At the end of the action, its participants scattered pieces of cotton wool stained with red paint near the entrance. When journalists asked whether they would clean up, the answer was negative.
“No, of course,” said Ekaterina Chepura. – Maybe this will be done by special cleaners who here receive salaries from a non-working body. Perhaps Gerasimyuk will remove it, offended by the cotton wool.”
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