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OHM LEADER MAINTAINS MCP FACILITATED BAN ON RUSSIAN TV CHANNEL

03 june, 2015
OHM LEADER MAINTAINS MCP FACILITATED BAN ON RUSSIAN TV CHANNEL     The leader of “Our Home is Moldova” (OHM) party, ex-Communist Grigore Petrenco maintains that the Communist Party (MCP) promoted itself the prohibition of the retransmission of Rossiya-24 news and analytic channel in this republic.

 

Petrenco said at a press conference at Infotag today that the MCP representative in the Audiovisual Coordinating Council, Artur Cozma, was perhaps the most eager voter of all the rest ACC members during the last week’s voting at the Council meeting for punishing the Russian channel.

 

Grigore Petrenco characterized as “a top limit of cynicism” the Communist Party’s statement, which appeared a week after the ACC’s ban and which said that the Party is protesting against the suspension of Rossiya-24 in this republic. He is convinced that MCP leader Vladimir Voronin has a direct relation to all these schemes.

 

Petrenco stated addressing to Voronin, “The Moldovan authorities suspended Rossiya-24 retransmission here last spring, after you had stated that “it is necessary to scrutinize these Russian TV channels”. May I remind you that in the autumn of 2014, after your insistent addresses concerning Antifa [anti-fascist] activists, the police arrested Pavel Grigorciuc and Mikhail Amerberg. I guess you should not have discharged Artur Cozma from the ACC – you should resign together with this whole gang of yours, who voted for the incumbent minority government of Chiril Gaburici”.

 

Grigore Petrenco stated that the “monstrous ruling coalition” practices censorship in Moldova, restricts citizens’ freedom of expression, which is a direct violation of the norms of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and of the Constitution of the Republic of Moldova.

 

“Citizens have the right to choose by themselves what to watch – Al Jazeera or BBC or Moldova-1. They vote with their remote control units in hands. The ACC has no right to determine priorities for the nation, but it does determine. Moreover, the media watchdog has breached the Code of Television and Radio Broadcasting. According to it, the ACC is not eligible to impose bans on broadcasting. The Council may only apply other sanctions such as fines, veto on advertising and the like. However, as we can see, laws in Moldova have been written for anybody but not for the incumbent authorities or their henchmen”, stated the previous parliament member.

 

As already reported by Infotag, the Audiovisual Coordinating Council wrote in its decision passed on May 27 that after the last year’s 6-month-long ban on broadcasting, “nothing has changed in the Russian channel’s editorial policy. It continues its propaganda as before, instead of informing the public”. A week later, the Communist Party leadership issued a press release all of a sudden, writing that the MCP was expressing its protest against the ACC decision.

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