"Rain" is turned on again

Some operators of cable networks-in particular, NTV-Plus-began to turn on the rain that they had just turned off.

This happened after the statement of the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov that he was “unknown about the presence of any laws” that violated “rain” with his survey on the surrender of Leningrad during the Great Patriotic War. “From a legal point of view, we can hardly talk about closing the channel,” Peskov said.

At the same time, he resolutely condemned the television channel for conducting a survey. “This is an absolutely moral and ethical issue, and it is beyond the facet of ethics for our people,” Itar-Tass quotes Peskov. “He crossed all the facets of the permissible.”

Answering the question of the “rain” about the possible exclusion of the channel from the packages of cable networks, Peskov noted that this problem is in their competence: “The operator is free to make decisions for the benefit of himself or at a loss to himself. Further, this is already a matter of some arbitration actions. ... This is a private channel, and from a legal point of view, we can hardly talk about its closure. ”

As the Director General of the TV channel Natalya Sindeeva said on the air, the operators disconnected it, on a confidentiality, admitted that they did this by order “from above”, RBC reports. Sindeeva also stated that a meeting was held about the channel in the presidential administration.

The Director General of Rain believes that the active actions against its channel began after the plot was released about the dachas of senior officials in the program “And so on”. The issue of the program on November 30 talked about the results of the investigation of the Rospil Foundation Alexei Navalny and the expensive summer cottages of officials on the shore of Istra.

The disconnections of the Rain channel began today, January 29, in several cities and regions of Russia. The Union of Russian Journalists called the cessation of the rain in cable networks unacceptable, the Moscow Charter of Journalists also expressed solidarity with the rain. By 23:45 Moscow time, the Online Petiation "Do not allow disconnecting and stop the injury" Rain "!" I collected more than 10 thousand signatures.