Civil Platform leader links situation with Dozhd to upcoming Moscow City Duma elections
MOSCOW. Jan 30 (Interfax) - Irina Prokhorova, leader of the party Civil Platform, links the situation with the television channel Dozhd to the future Moscow City Duma elections.
"The recent ideological campaigns indicate that people tend to see minor flaws in others while ignoring big flaws in themselves. The story with Dozhd is a fine example of that. An incorrect question about the blockade has put the very existence of the television channel in jeopardy," Prokhorova said on Facebook on Thursday.
Prokhorova reiterated that, despite the apologies offered by Dozhd, "administration is not calming down."
"It is strange, that other, much more odious statements do not outrage parliamentarians. What is the problem? The problem is that Dozhd is an opposition and liberal [channel], which has recently become a synonym of unreliability. The problem is that the crackdown on the channel marks the beginning of the Moscow City Duma election campaign," Prokhorova said.
It was reported that Dozhd asked its viewers to reply as to whether more lives could have been saved during the siege of Leningrad, had the city been surrendered to the German troops.
The poll prompted wide public outrage. The television channel's top management removed the poll from the website and apologized but the public was not satisfied by these measures.
Communists in the State Duma said they were going to initiate prosecutorial checks into the Dozhd channel. The possibility of suspending its broadcasting service was discussed by cable television operators, including Russian Cable Television Association's Vice President Mikhail Silin, who is also a supervisory board member at Akado Group.
