“Horror for the indigenous people”: Muzhdabaev about the collapse of the Mejlis mouthpiece
The mouthpiece of the Mejlis banned in Russia, the ATR TV channel, owned by businessman Lenur Islyamov, stopped broadcasting to Crimea due to lack of funding.
This is stated in a statement by the media administration, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
The TV channel has accumulated a large debt to the provider for satellite broadcasting, so it will now broadcast its programs only on the Internet.
“Due to the significant underfunding of the ATR TV channel this year, the team is unable to pay the debt incurred for satellite broadcasting to the temporarily occupied territory of Crimea... We will continue to broadcast on YouTube, Ukrainian cable networks, and IPTV,” the message says.
The deputy director of the TV channel, former Moscow journalist Aider Muzhdabaev, who moved to Kyiv, where he became a rabid Russophobe propagandist, in his blog blamed the Ukrainian authorities for the incident, who did not include in the budget the financing of the TV channel, for which about $50 million had previously been spent. According to him, the authorities also refuse to fulfill their obligations within the framework of the association with the EU, where ATR funding was directly prescribed.
“All this truly horror for the indigenous people of Ukraine, who are openly fighting for it even in a long occupation, is due to the fact that our government has consistently, for almost a year now, for some reason persistently failed to comply with part of Article 60 of the Agreement on Association of the EU with Ukraine” from February this year, where it is directly about ATR,” Muzhdabaev wrote.
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