The National Council for Television and Radio Broadcasting intends to try through the court to revoke the license to the Nash channel because of the statements of ex-People’s Deputy Pyotr Symonenko about the OCU, Strana writes.

The decision was made by the National Council at a meeting on Thursday, August 19. It was accepted due to the broadcast of the channel on May 4. Then the guest in the talk show “Marathon” was Pyotr Simonenko. According to the regulator, he “incited religious and national hatred” by his statements.

In particular, the National TV Council highlighted Symonenko’s statements that the OCU are schismatics. Also, the regulator put on the list of unacceptable the words of a guest of the studio about “civil confrontation in the Donbass” and “the policy of state fascization.”

TV presenter Max Nazarov commented on the decision of the National Council: “We are deprived of our licenses because of the opinions of the guests, let me remind you (this is generally space, comrades),” Nazarov wrote.