Medvedchuk: discrimination of the Russian language for the sake of national radicals – International panorama
KIEV, December 31. / TASS /. The current government in Ukraine sees national radicalism as the basis of its policy. This opinion was expressed on Friday by the head of the political council of the Opposition Platform – For Life (Opposition Platform – For Life) party, deputy of the Verkhovna Rada Viktor Medvedchuk.
“[Президент Украины Владимир] Zelensky and his entourage are trying to please those people who profess national radical movements and national radical views. They profess this anti-Russia policy. Therefore, channels are closed that speak the truth, which take a different point of view. Is this correct? No, this is wrong – this is criminal, “Medvedchuk noted on website party.
According to the politician, Zelensky, having signed a decree on the introduction of sanctions by the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC), closed the TV channels that were popular with Russian-speaking residents and advocated the unification of the country. “Besides the fact that they are oppositional, they also unite what the Russian-speaking population was looking at and looked at for the most part. <...> These channels did not profess hysteria associated with the policy of cave-like Russophobia. These channels professed to be brotherly countries. [экс-президента Петра] Poroshenko, and today – the power of Zelensky “, – Permission Medvedchuk.
According to him, the so-called rulers come and go, but the peoples remain. “The latest sociology two weeks ago says that 40% in the country, in Ukraine, 47% are bad or very bad, and 13% have not decided.” “where 40% think differently, in contrast to what the authorities think, how can 40% of the population, who see representatives of the Russian people, how can the authorities ignore the rights of these 40%?” – asked Medvedchuk.
On December 28, Zelensky signed sanctions against two Ukrainian TV channels – First Nezavisimy and Ukrlive. On February 2, the President signed a decree on the application of sanctions against the TV channels 112 Ukraine, NewsOne and ZIK. According to the decree, sanctions were imposed on TV channels for five years. This provides for blocking their broadcast.
Leading European politicians, international and Ukrainian experts and world media have criticized Zelensky’s decrees to restrict the work of opposition television channels. According to the site 112.uaFor months, the world media, European politicians and experts published 120,969 materials on the Ukrainian authorities of the opposition and independent TV channels.