Moscow sees Kiev\u2019s decision to ban Russian TV channels from broadcasting in Ukraine as an openly political step, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said on Thursday.<\/p>\n
\u201cUnfortunately, I have to say that the Ukrainian leadership keeps ignoring appeals by different international organisations and journalists\u2019 unions, and augments efforts to maintain tough administrative control over media, openly preventing an objective coverage of events in the country,\u201d the diplomat said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe see this as being at variance with rules of international law and as an openly political decision,\u201d Lukashevich added.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis testifies to the fact that Ukraine\u2019s security agencies consistently deprive the population of an opportunity to get an alternative point of view on developments in the country,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
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Moscow sees Kiev\u2019s decision to ban Russian TV channels from broadcasting in Ukraine as an openly political step, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said on Thursday. \u201cUnfortunately, I have to say that the Ukrainian leadership keeps ignoring appeals by different international organisations and journalists\u2019 unions, and augments efforts to maintain tough administrative control over … Continue reading “Ban on Russian TV pure political expediency”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2961,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,3],"tags":[7637,9948,5850,9949,7484],"class_list":["post-15861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-news","tag-kiev","tag-political-expediency","tag-russian-federation","tag-russian-language","tag-ukraine"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2961"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15862,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15861\/revisions\/15862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}