Russian authorities’ refusal to renew licence over alleged paperwork ‘errors’ forces ATR to shut down after annexation from UkraineCrimea’s only independent TV news channel, ATR, has been forced to stop broadcasting after the new authorities rejected its attempts to register for a licence.ATR is also the only channel that broadcasts in the language of the Crimean Tatars, an ethnic minority that opposed Russia’s annexation of the peninsula in March 2014; 60% of the channel’s content was in Russian, 35% in Crimean Tatar and 5% in Ukrainian. … …read more
Source: The Guardian
