Ukraine’s National Council has removed RTV1 from the list of channels allowed to be distributed in the country.
In a statement, it says that the channel, which is a Russian language service aimed at viewers outside Russia, was temporarily suspended for a year up until March 7, 2020.
Although it was licensed in the UK at the start of the suspension it is now registered in Spain following a change of ownership that the National Council was informed about in February.
The regulator’s decision to ban RTVI follows monitoring of its programming between February 24 and March 1 this year.
This was found to violate part 2 of Article 6 of the law On Television and Radio Broadcasting.
