In Kyiv, protesters unlocked the building of the Inter TV channel

In Kyiv, protesters unlocked the building of the Inter TV channel after the promise of his leadership to change the information policy. This was stated by the rally co -organizer Andrei Vatolkin, Ukrainian Pravda reports .

The leadership of the channel also promised to dismiss the deputy director of the development of National Information Systems, which produces news programs for Inter, Igor Shuvalov.

“The agreement has been reached, we have five days. Now the entrances will be unlocked, the cars will be removed, the tents will be assembled. We are waiting for five days while they change the content,” Serdyuk said. “Shuvalov will be dismissed in the near future. We hope that this process will be launched. If the content is not changed, people will gather and the blockade will be renewed, but in a much more tough form.”

Serdyuk also noted that journalists will be allowed to their jobs. “All our activists have no negativity for journalists. We all understand that the people who work here are good people and many of them support us. But they simply do their work. Our action was against the leadership of the channel. Therefore, we hope that our requirements will be fully fulfilled in five days,” the activist said.

On September 4, a rally of up to 20 participants took place near the television channel building. They set fire to the tires, and also threw a smoke bomb into the hall on the ground floor. There was a fire in the building. There were no victims. Six suspects of involvement in the action were delivered to the Shevchenkovsky regional police department.

On Monday, those gathered at the Inter TV channel announced an unlimited protest. They blocked the building. “We are now blocking this channel so that Russian agents could not get here. We release everyone and do not let anyone in,” said Seredyuk. In the evening, the police evacuated 70 employees of the television channel from the building.

Over the past two years, Inter has been repeatedly accused of a pro -Russian position. Until the beginning of 2015, 29 percent of its shares belonged to the Russian first channel; Then they were bought by the oligarch Dmitry Firtash, who was suspected of financing pro -Russian forces. Now 100 percent of the channel is controlled by Firtash and Sergey Levochkin, who, in the presidency of Viktor Yanukovych, headed his administration.

In February of this year, a scandal erupted in Ukrainian society, after the chief editor of Inter, the Russian citizen Maria Stolyarova, during the broadcast of the plot about the heroes of heavenly hundreds, without turning off the microphone, ordered colleagues to "end this garbage." Stolyarova was dismissed and, under the escort of the SBU, was expelled from Ukraine with a ban on entry into the country for five years.

Attacks on the edition of Inter took place earlier. So, in early January 2015, about 20 people in masks threw the building with bricks and cobblestones , breaking the glass windows of the hall on the ground floor. On the fact of the incident, a case was opened under an article on hooliganism. Several alleged participants in the attack were detained and delivered to the Shevchenkovsky District Department of Internal Affairs, but after taking the explanations they were released.