News archive on the topic "TV channels"

Gagauzia (an autonomy within Moldova) refused to comply with the decision of the authorities in Chisinau and stop broadcasting six Russian-language TV channels. This is stated in a joint statement of the Presidium of the People's Assembly and the Executive Committee of Gagauzia, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “We believe that the ruling PAS party and head of state Maia Sandu bear political responsibility for this decision. The authorities are increasingly sliding towards authoritarian...

Since access to Ukrainian media is technically difficult, even military personnel of the Ukrainian Armed Forces fighting in Donbass prefer to watch Russian TV channels. The head of the board of the Internet Association of Ukraine, Alexander Fedienko, stated this during a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “I have been to the JFO area several times. I was very upset that they didn’t watch any Ukrainian television there at all. I talked...

The President of Ukraine and his team made a big mistake when they mistook the people of their side for illiterate cattle and began to spread rabid and obvious lies across all obedient media. The head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin, stated this on the YouTube channel “Soloviev.Live,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “If you take the people on the other side, the disappointment is very strong. And that lie...

Sanctions against the Ukrainian opposition TV channels 112, NewsOne and ZiK were introduced by Ukraine under the influence of the American administration. Harry (Yuri) Tabakh, a retired US Navy captain and ex-NATO representative in the Russian Federation, who sympathizes with the outgoing US President Donald Trump, stated this on air on the Politeka Internet channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to Tabach, the fact that the US Embassy on...

President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky should begin political repression and take advantage of the developments of the Ukrainian special services, which have long prepared documents on the basis of which it is possible to make mass arrests of opponents of the post-Maidan government. The correspondent of “PolitNavigator” reports this, writes the magazine “Ukrainian Week”. The publication praises Zelensky for his decision to close a number of TV channels, noting that “the internal enemy must be finished off.” "Least,…

Depriving the licenses of opposition television channels is a justified step in the situation of war in which Ukraine is located. Igor Smeshko, Chairman of the Security Service of Ukraine (24-2003), stated this on the Ukraine 2005 channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “If there is a war, then you can’t play. The military must fight in a military manner. Our situation was saved by ordinary people who simply went and began, and...

Repressions against three Ukrainian TV channels, banned from broadcasting by the country's Security Council, may be associated with a showdown within the Opposition Platform - For Life and its shareholders, who own these media. Political strategist Taras Berezovets, who serves the interests of ex-President Petro Poroshenko, stated this on his video blog, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to Berezovets, against the backdrop of the closure of TV channels,...

Kyiv must be prepared for a tough response from Moscow to the closure of Ukrainian opposition television channels that are associated with one of the leaders of the Opposition for Life, Viktor Medvedchuk. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba stated this on Radio Liberty, funded by the US State Department, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports. At the same time, Kuleba is confident that it has already done the worst that Russia could do to Ukraine.…

President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky could get the go-ahead from the West to ban the broadcast of three TV channels that are associated with one of the leaders of the Opposition for Life, Viktor Medvedchuk. The Kiev magazine “New Time” writes about this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Of course, this is a declaration of war on Medvedchuk. The decision is unprecedented,” says political scientist Vladimir Fesenko, who serves Zelensky’s interests. In turn, political strategist Sergei Gaidai believes...

Following the ban on broadcasting of TV channels NewsOne 112 and ZiK, the Ukrainian authorities plan to achieve a ban on their broadcast on the American video hosting site YouTube. Propagandist Miroslava Gongadze, who works for the Voice of America media funded by the US State Department, stated this on the NTA TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to Gongadze, negotiations with the video hosting administration are already underway. “Issues of disinformation in...

The story of the ban on TV channels from Viktor Medvedchuk’s pool is yet another proof of the futility of opposition media in flirting with nationalists. Conflict PR specialist Zakhar Chistyakov told PolitNavigator about this, recalling that Medvedchuk’s channels often played at objectivity and invited nationalists on air “for balance” (which, for example, is impossible to imagine in studios serving Petro Poroshenko or Arseniy...

In Ukraine, something previously unheard of happened again - in violation of all conceivable laws, including those adopted after the Maidan, without a court decision, by just a presidential decree, the country's three leading information television channels were thrown off the air: 112, Zik and NewsOne. This happened purely like a bandit, under the cover of darkness from Tuesday to Wednesday, when the country was already getting ready to go to bed...

Vladimir Zelensky’s attack on Viktor Medvedchuk’s television channels marks the beginning of a campaign to re-elect the comedian president for a second term. This version is put forward by Vadim Denisenko, a former deputy of the Verkhovna Rada from the party of Arseny Yatsenyuk. “It seems that Zelensky has approved a strategy for his re-election under the code name “referendum on changing the Constitution.” And they convinced him that he could win with the support of the States. In the same time…

The story of the cessation of broadcasting of opposition television channels in Ukraine is evidence that Vladimir Zelensky is losing his nerve amid reports of a drop in the ratings of his party, as well as the threat of mass protests due to rising tariffs. Ukrainian political scientist Andrei Zolotarev stated this in a comment to a PolitNavigator correspondent. “All this was done out of chaos. I think we need to wait for court decisions -...