The prosecutor's office checks the rain

The prosecutor's office of St. Petersburg began checking the rain television channel in connection with a survey on the blockade of Leningrad.

We are talking about the survey "Was it necessary to pass Leningrad in order to save hundreds of thousands of lives?" Later, the channel recognized the survey by a mistake and apologized.

“The prosecutor's office of St. Petersburg is checking about possible violations. Whether the TV channel crossed all the facets of the final breakthrough of the blockade before the commemorative date of the final breakthrough?! ”, The statement said on the website of the Prosecutor's Office of St. Petersburg.

On Wednesday, the Parliament of St. Petersburg called on the Russian Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika to punish “rain” “up to the closure”, however, the prosecutor’s office began the prosecutor ’s office on the complaint of a citizen who considered himself offended due to the survey, the representative of the prosecutor's office of the Leningrad Region, where the complaint was received.

“On the twenty -seventh of January, on the Rain channel, questions were raised on the air that insulted veterans of the Great Patriotic War, who defended Leningrad during the blockade. I ask you to check this information, ”the agency’s interlocutor quoted the appeal.

On Tuesday, January 28, the President of the Russian Cable Television Association and the owner of Akado Yuri Podachkin proposed to turn off the rain from broadcasting. On Wednesday, January 29, cable networks, including NTV-Plus, Akado and Er-Telecom, stopped the channel broadcast. On the air of the rain, its general director Natalya Sindeeva said that the operators who disconnected the channel did this by order “from above”.