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Ukraine Bans Russia’s One Independent TV Station


Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev in Dozhd’s studios. Source: Kremlin.ru
On Thursday, Ukraine’s National Council on Television and Radio Broadcasting voted unanimously to remove Russian independent TV station Dozhd from its list of approved foreign broadcasters, giving television providers one month to remove the station from their networks.
According to a press release posted on the council’s website, the decision to ban Dozhd, the last remaining Russian TV station licensed to be broadcast in Ukraine, was made after the channel aired two films on December 31, “Faster than Rabbits” and “What Else Do Men Talk About?”, which popularized “the law enforcement agencies …read more

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