EURACTIV with Reuters Est. 2min 15-12-2022 A talk show Perviy Kanal featuring propagandist Margarita Simonyan [L]. [Twitter] Euractiv is part of the Trust Project >>> Print Email Facebook X LinkedIn WhatsApp Telegram French broadcasting authority Arcom on Wednesday (14 December) urged satellite company Eutelsat to stop carrying three Russian TV channels, whose coverage of the war in Ukraine included “repeated incitement to hatred and violence and numerous shortcomings in honesty of information.” Arcom said it told Eutelsat to stop broadcasting Rossiya 1, Perviy Kanal and NTV. A Eutelsat spokeswoman said the French company would comply and stop broadcasting the three channels. Rossia-1 is the channel featuring the daily “Evening with Vladimir Solovyov”, run by the propagandist sanctioned by the EU for being an apologist and propagandist for Russian state power. The show is also broadcast on Perviy Kanal. France’s top administrative court last week ordered Arcom to review its initial decision that it did not have the power to order Eutelsat to stop broadcasting the channels, in a case brought by Paris-based Reporters Without Borders (RSF). Arcom said it had discovered the channels “were broadcast not only in Russia, but also in the Ukrainian territories annexed by Russia”. “Given that, contrary to Russia, Ukraine has signed and ratified the European Convention on cross-border television, as France has done, Arcom now has the legal basis to request that Eutelsat stop broacasting these three channels,” Arcom said. Earlier this year the European Union banned several Russian state-owned broadcasters as part of a sanctions package in response to the war, preventing them from distributing their content on cable, via satellite, on the internet or via smartphone apps. Commission chief announces further Russia sanctions, including oil, banks, broadcasters The EU announced further steps in broadening the sweeping sanctions against Russia, by proposing a gradual ban on Russian oil, excluding Russia’s biggest bank from the international network and banning three state-owned Russian broadcasters. Russia calls the banning of its TV channels censorship. (Edited by Georgi Gotev) Read more with Euractiv Turkish court sentences Erdogan rival to jail with political banA Turkish court sentenced Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu to jail on Wednesday (14 December) and imposed a political ban on the opposition politician who is seen as a strong potential challenger to President Tayyip Erdoğan in elections next year.
