Chair of the Communist Party faction at the Verkhovna Rada Petro Symonenko thinks that the language policy of the National Council for Television and Radio Broadcasting is unconstitutional.
The Communist Party press service made this statement.
Symonenko said that the TV Council sent a letter to its representatives in the Crimean Republic, regions, cities of Kyiv and Sevastopol in which it is demanding follow verbal direction of the TV Council's first deputy head Ihor Kurus to obligatory notify about providers switching off non-adapted Russian channels.
Information from the Communist Party leader, the letter is enclosed with a report form to state the name of a service provider and a time of switching-off Russian channels.
"The Communist Party takes acts of the National Council for Television and Radio Broadcasting of Ukraine as violating constitutional rights of citizens for free obtaining of information and aimed at deliberate escalation of tensions in relations with our strategic partner Russia, aimed at language and ethnic splitting of Ukraine," he said.
Symonenko slammed the TV Council for ignoring excessive TV and radio programs propagandizing cruelty, violence, racism and xenophobia, ideology of religious sects.
"Instead of clearing the Ukrainian air of filth and vice, the TV Council officials deprive many people of possibility to watch and hear programs in Russian, mother tongue for millions of our citizens," he said.
The chief communist believes, if follow the TV Council's language policy all the foreign channels non-adapted into Ukrainian language must be banned.
As Ukrainian News earlier reported, Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated oppression of the Russian language in Ukraine.
