Two
members of the Youth Chamber at the Moscow City Duma – deputy
head of the Moscow branch of YABLOKO Ivan Bolshakov and member
of the Regional Council Alexander Gnezdilov – forwarded to
President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev an address with a request
to interfere into the situation around closing of the Sport
television channel.
The All-Russia Sate Television and Radio Corporation (VGTRK)
adopted a decision to close the nation-wide Sport Channel
from January 2010 replacing it by a national TV channel Russiya-2.
YABLOKO’s activists think that “closing of the national sport
television channel does not suit the preparation to the forthcoming
Olympic Games in Sochi and the World Student Games in Kazan.”
“Closing of the channel can condition abrupt reduction of
popularity of the niche kinds of sports, they will have no
possibility to get broadcasting time,” runs the address. “In
addition, closing of the Sport TV channel means depriving
children and young people of an alternative to the street,
drugs and alcohol.”
“Of sports has been proclaimed a national priority project
in our country, then we should preserve a state sport television
channel.”
See also:
Media
Law in Russia
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