The National Television and Radio Broadcasting Council of Ukraine is going to ban the broadcasts of Russian TV channel 365 Days and Belarus 24, Council’s chairman Yury Artemenko told Interfax.
Such decision was taken due to the fact that the channels distribute information materials that violate certain clauses of the European Convention on Transfrontier Television, he said.
The Council ia about to seek a ban on broadcasting the above mentioned channels in Ukraine in court.
On October, 1 the Council members watched Belarus24 program ‘Human Rights. Looking into the World’ and noted that it contained ‘anti-Ukrainian propaganda’ and ‘fabricated information on the situation in the country’.
Its anchorman Yauhen Novikau (Evgeniy Novikov) stated that Ukraine had invited a war in the east so that the country could solve its financial problems.
Mr Novikau blamed Ukraine’s National Guard for executing hundreds of residents of Donbas who ‘just wanted to live on their own land’. According to the journalist, the bodies were buried in mass graves.
Mr Novikau is notorious for his pro-Russian views and anti-Western rhetoric. For example, once he claimed that children in the USA had to eat rats and offered a video made by North Korean Television as a proof.
