{"id":15884,"date":"2014-08-20T07:26:36","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T07:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/ukraine-bans-14-russian-tv-channels-for-war\/"},"modified":"2014-08-20T07:27:43","modified_gmt":"2014-08-20T07:27:43","slug":"ukraine-bans-14-russian-tv-channels-for-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/ukraine-bans-14-russian-tv-channels-for-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine Bans 14 Russian TV Channels for ‘War Propaganda’"},"content":{"rendered":"

{{Ukraine has blocked 14 Russian television channels from its cable networks to stop them spreading war propaganda, an Interior Ministry official said.}}<\/p>\n

Television news has played a vital role in public perception of the conflict in eastern Ukraine where many of the largely Russian-speaking population watch Russian news.<\/p>\n

Russian media tend to project the Kremlin view that the ousting of the Moscow-backed president Viktor Yanukovych in February was the work of a fascist “junta” and the separatist rebellions are the product of unjust practices and military action by Kiev against Russian speakers.<\/p>\n

The Interior Ministry has banned the fourteen channels, including news channels Russia Today and Life News, for “broadcasting propaganda of war and violence,” ministry official Anton Gerashchenko said Tuesday in a Facebook post.<\/p>\n

“As an independent sovereign state, Ukraine can and should protect its media space from aggression from Russia, which has been deliberately inciting hatred and discord among Ukrainian citizens,” he said.<\/p>\n

Pro-Russian rebels have been fighting government forces since April when they set up separatist republics in the Russian-speaking east after political upheaval in Kiev led to Yanukovych’s ousting followed by Russia’s annexation of Crimea.<\/p>\n

The banned stations include most of Russian television news output and most are either directly run by the Russian state or owned by companies with close links to the Kremlin.<\/p>\n

Gerashchenko said the move follows a similar step by Russia in March, when it turned off Ukrainian channels in Crimea.<\/p>\n

“What’s more, not one Ukrainian channel is broadcast on cable networks in Russia,” he said.<\/p>\n

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