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Parliament decided to commit the mass media to provide information about their owners

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Most of the Ukrainian audience gets all the information from TV channels, but at the same time the names of the TV and Radio Broadcasting Companies’ owners are known seldom or never for the Ukrainians.
According to ZN.UA, the Ukrainian Parliament approved in principle the draft amendments to some laws on transparency of media ownership. 240 people’s deputies voted for the draft law №1831. The document suggests committing all subjects of information activities, which may be represented both by software services providers and TV and Radio Broadcasting companies, to provide actual information about the ownership structure, as well as their ultimate owners.
The draft law also empowers the National Television and Radio Broadcasting Council to request one or another subject of information activities to provide additional data on their ownership structure.
The draft law’s authors pointed out in their explanatory note that the majority of Ukrainians consumed information from TV broadcasting, but the ignorance of the real owner of one or another TV channel, didn’t give them any chance to decide whether to trust that particular media.
The draft law’s author is Nikolay Knyazhytsky, the People’s deputy from the Narodnyi Front (People’s Front).
Knyazhytsky has been paying attention for a long time on the lack of true information  on the ultimate owners of the TV channel Inter. So, according to Knyazhytsky, the decision of the National Council on extending license to that TV channel for another 7 years was illegal.

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