ATR Crimean Tatar TV channel resumes broadcasting from Kyiv

July 20, ATR Crimean Tatar TV channel resumed its Zaman news program broadcast.

As Radio Liberty reports, in mid-June, owner of the ATR Group media holding Lenur Isliamov stressed that Crimean editorial board of his media would have no relation to programs’ broadcast to be produced on the mainland Ukraine. Chief editor of the information programs Osman Pashayev also said that the new newscast was prepared without involving the Crimean editorial board. The news is released in three languages: Russian, Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar.

“It is difficult for us to get information from there. In fact, we may say that ATR has no editorial board in Crimea. We will try to obtain information from freelance journalists and productions, remaining in Crimea, and thus obtain the picture from Crimea,” Osman Pashayev says.

The ATR journalists say that Crimea remains the channel’s audience as before, so they will try to produce most of the news about life of the peninsula. At the same time, they note there are problems with that, because the people, whom they work in Crimea with, are at risk as they can be visited at home or at work any time. But there are still people who send them their materials, captured on mobile phones or small cameras.

The news program will be released four times a weekday. The journalists will prepare reports about the Crimean Tatars, residing in the mainland Ukraine, as well as cover the events of national and global scale.

As a reminder, the ATR first Crimean Tatar TV channel went off air in Crimea on April 1. The management tried to continue working on the peninsula, trying to get the Russian license four times. However, the Russian Federal Supervision Agency for Information Technologies and Communications denied the license, referring to alleged errors in the documents.