{"id":445195,"date":"2018-01-25T13:46:40","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T13:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/?p=445195"},"modified":"2018-01-25T13:46:40","modified_gmt":"2018-01-25T13:46:40","slug":"russian-duma-asks-pervyi-kanal-cease-contract-vlad-plahotniuc-following-moldovas-anti-propaganda-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/russian-duma-asks-pervyi-kanal-cease-contract-vlad-plahotniuc-following-moldovas-anti-propaganda-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Duma asks Pervyi Kanal to cease contract with Vlad Plahotniuc, following Moldova&#8217;s &#8220;anti-propaganda&#8221; law"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p>24 January 2018- 424 deputies of the Russian State Duma condemned in a declaration the &#8220;discrimination of Russian media&#8221; in Moldova and asked the state channel Pervyi Kanal to cease the contract with the outlets owned by the Moldovan politician Vlad Plahotniuc, reports <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pnp.ru\/politics\/gosduma-prizvala-pervyy-kanal-rastorgnut-kontrakt-s-televideniem-moldovy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Parlamentskaya Gazeta<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The head of Duma&#8217;s committee for CIS affairs, Leonid Kalashnikov, declared that Plahotniuc is using the entertainment shows from Pervyi Kanal (for his &#8220;Prime TV&#8221;- Moldova.org), but replaces the news programmes. Moreover, Kalashnikov thinks that the Russian deputies must &#8220;give a personal mark&#8221; to Vlad Plahotniuc, who holds Russian citizenship and who is investigated for &#8220;attempted murder&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian\u00a0Federation sees such actions on the behalf of the &#8220;coordinator&#8221; of the governing coalition V. G. Plahotniuc, effectively usurping the power in the state, as a serious violation of the generally-recognized international law norms in the domain of free access to information, affecting the rights of a significant part of the citizens of the Republic of Moldova, and qualifies these actions as another anti-Russian act&#8221;<\/em>, reads the document, quoted by <a href=\"https:\/\/ria.ru\/world\/20180118\/1512837683.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RIA Novosti<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The statement of the Russian deputies reads that the &#8220;anti-propaganda&#8221; law initiated by Plahotniuc and adopted by the Moldovan authorities seriously violates declarations and conventions on human rights, asking the UN, the Council of Europe and the OSCE to evaluate the law.The deputies agree that the Russian government must ensure the access to Russian TV shows to the Moldovan population.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/moldova-parliament-adopts-law-banning-foreign-propaganda-tv-shows-dodon-threatens-block\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">adopted law<\/a>, readopted on 22 December 2017 and promulgated on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/parliament-speaker-candu-promulgates-anti-propaganda-law-instead-suspended-president-dodon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">10 January 2018<\/a>, provides the permission for TV and radio broadcasting of informative, analytical, military and political content that is\u00a0produced in the countries that ratified the European Convention on Transborder Television, EU member states, US and Canada.\u00a0The law also stipulates sanctions for broadcasters that violate the law: from fines to canceling broadcasting licenses in less than 30 days by a court.\u00a0Most probably, the law is directed against the Russian propaganda TV shows that are rebroadcasted in Moldova through the local franchises.<\/p>\n<p>Plahotniuc owns the most-watched TV channel in Moldova, Prime TV, that rebroadcasts Russian \u201cPervyi Kanal\u201d, probably the most popular piece of Kremlin\u2019s propaganda machine. On the other hand, NTV Moldova, belonging to a Socialist MP and known for best coverage of Igor Dodon, and partially rebroadcasting NTV from Russia, would likely suffer from the &#8220;anti-propaganda&#8221; law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span>24 January 2018- 424 deputies of the Russian State Duma condemned in a declaration the &#8220;discrimination of Russian media&#8221; in Moldova and asked the state channel Pervyi Kanal to cease the contract with the outlets owned by the Moldovan politician Vlad Plahotniuc, reports Parlamentskaya Gazeta. The head of Duma&#8217;s committee for CIS affairs, Leonid Kalashnikov, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":445197,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-445195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-important"],"content_social_share":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p>24 January 2018- 424 deputies of the Russian State Duma condemned in a declaration the &#8220;discrimination of Russian media&#8221; in Moldova and asked the state channel Pervyi Kanal to cease the contract with the outlets owned by the Moldovan politician Vlad Plahotniuc, reports <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pnp.ru\/politics\/gosduma-prizvala-pervyy-kanal-rastorgnut-kontrakt-s-televideniem-moldovy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Parlamentskaya Gazeta<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The head of Duma&#8217;s committee for CIS affairs, Leonid Kalashnikov, declared that Plahotniuc is using the entertainment shows from Pervyi Kanal (for his &#8220;Prime TV&#8221;- Moldova.org), but replaces the news programmes. Moreover, Kalashnikov thinks that the Russian deputies must &#8220;give a personal mark&#8221; to Vlad Plahotniuc, who holds Russian citizenship and who is investigated for &#8220;attempted murder&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian\u00a0Federation sees such actions on the behalf of the &#8220;coordinator&#8221; of the governing coalition V. G. Plahotniuc, effectively usurping the power in the state, as a serious violation of the generally-recognized international law norms in the domain of free access to information, affecting the rights of a significant part of the citizens of the Republic of Moldova, and qualifies these actions as another anti-Russian act&#8221;<\/em>, reads the document, quoted by <a href=\"https:\/\/ria.ru\/world\/20180118\/1512837683.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RIA Novosti<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The statement of the Russian deputies reads that the &#8220;anti-propaganda&#8221; law initiated by Plahotniuc and adopted by the Moldovan authorities seriously violates declarations and conventions on human rights, asking the UN, the Council of Europe and the OSCE to evaluate the law.The deputies agree that the Russian government must ensure the access to Russian TV shows to the Moldovan population.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/moldova-parliament-adopts-law-banning-foreign-propaganda-tv-shows-dodon-threatens-block\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">adopted law<\/a>, readopted on 22 December 2017 and promulgated on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/parliament-speaker-candu-promulgates-anti-propaganda-law-instead-suspended-president-dodon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">10 January 2018<\/a>, provides the permission for TV and radio broadcasting of informative, analytical, military and political content that is\u00a0produced in the countries that ratified the European Convention on Transborder Television, EU member states, US and Canada.\u00a0The law also stipulates sanctions for broadcasters that violate the law: from fines to canceling broadcasting licenses in less than 30 days by a court.\u00a0Most probably, the law is directed against the Russian propaganda TV shows that are rebroadcasted in Moldova through the local franchises.<\/p>\n<p>Plahotniuc owns the most-watched TV channel in Moldova, Prime TV, that rebroadcasts Russian \u201cPervyi Kanal\u201d, probably the most popular piece of Kremlin\u2019s propaganda machine. 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