This is not the first such attempt.
The governing Democratic party (PDM) has developed and will introduce into Parliament a bill to ban foreign propaganda in the media. As stated to journalists the press-Secretary of the party, Vitalie Gamurari, it focuses on the Russian TV channels.
“The impression that under the pretext of propaganda by talking about the limitation of many rights and activities of some TV channels. We want to be clear: this does not apply to specific channels. It is clear propaganda, mainly in the Russian media” – said Gamurari.
This is not the first attempt of the PDM formed the ruling coalition of Pro-European parties to limit the Russian media: from the beginning of the aggression of Russia against Ukraine Coordination Council on television and radio (CCA) of the Republic banned broadcasting channel “Russia 24”. Attempts by the opposition to challenge this decision failed, the court left it in force.
Local television stations that rebroadcast a Russian news program, has been repeatedly sanctioned for “broadcasting propaganda materials and lack of pluralism.”
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