KYIV. Feb 5. (Interfax) - The General Director of Ukraine's Broadcasting, Radiocommunications & Television Concern (BRT Concern), Oleksandr Pivniuk, has been dismissed, Ukraine's Minister of Information Policy Yury Stets has announced.
"Oleksandr Pivniuk, the General Director of BRT Concern is the man in this country, who, in my view, has been disrupting the re-launch of Ukrainian television channels and radio stations in the east. He and his underlings facilitate signal distribution for Russian television channels and the television channels of the so-called LPR and DPR (the self-proclaimed Luhansk and Donetsk republics) in the temporarily occupied territories. Whether that is true or not, we'll find out in the next few days from the authorities," he wrote on his Facebook page on Wednesday.
On Wednesday the government took the following decisions with respect to Pivniuk: to remove him from office, to set up a governmental commission that will have ten days to assess Pivniuk's actions, and to ask law enforcement authorities to launch a criminal inquiry into aiding and abetting terrorist organizations, Stets said.
More on several other staff reshuffles will be announced in the coming days, Stets said.