The Moldovan parliament has approved in the first reading amendments to the country’s Television and Radio Broadcasting Code.
Quoting Vlad Batryncha, the parliament’s deputy speaker, RAI Novosti reports that this will result in the lifting of the ban on the broadcasting of `Russian TV channels in the country. It adds that in 2017 the Moldovan parliament adopted legislation to combat foreign propaganda.
This applied to information, political and military content produced in countries that had not ratified the European Convention on Transfrontier Television. However, it allowed for the retransmission of entertainment and other content.
As previously reported by Broadband TV News, Moldova’s president Igor Dodon spoke this autumn of the need for Russian TV channels to return to Moldova.
However, he failed to get re-elected last month, losing a poll to the pro-EU candidate Maia Sandu.
