The first Crimean Tatar radio station Meidan FM stopped broadcasting in the occupied Crimea

Присяжнюк Владислава
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16:28, 01 March
The first Crimean Tatar radio station Meidan FM stopped broadcasting in the occupied Crimea
Image source: meydan.fm

Today, on the 1st of March, 2021, the first Crimean Tatar radio station Meidan FM stopped broadcasting in the occupied Crimea.

This was announced by the owner of the media holding ATR, which includes Meidan FM, Lenur Islamov.

"Today, March 1, 2021, the first Crimean Tatar radio station, Maidan FM, was broadcast in Crimea. We were unable to pay for a broadcast to the Crimea to a service provider. This is the second shutdown of the radio station in its 15-year history", - informed in the statement.

In a comment to the Public Crimea, Islamov noted that it is not possible to measure the number of listeners of radio or any other media outlet that broadcasts to the occupied Crimea.

He also said that for 6 years the company was supported by Ukraine.

"We have been supported for all these 6 years, while we are here, the state of Ukraine has always supported us", - Lenur Islamov stressed.

In addition, he noted that almost a month ago they wrote a letter to the Lithuanian Seimas, personally to the President of Lithuania, the Government of Lithuania and the Prime Minister of Lithuania. These letters have already been received there and they will ask the Lithuanians and the government to support them.

What is known

  • The head of the Ministry for the Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine, Oleksiy Reznikov, signed letters to the G7 ambassadors asking for financial assistance to the Crimean Tatar TV channel ATR.
  • In 2021, TV and radio companies broadcasting on the occupied Crimean semi-island and Donbas will receive almost 50 million hryvnias from the state budget.