Ramanchuk asks foreign TV channels to provide air time to candidates
A presidential candidate Jaraslau Ramanchuk has addressed to the administrations of 6 foreign TV-channels which broadcast in Belarus, asking to provide air time to the opposition presidential candidates. Ramanchuk's fellow party member Anatol Liabedzka has informed Euroradio about this. The appeal has been sent to the general director of the First TV-Channel (Russia) Katstantsin Ernst, the general director of the NTV (Russia) Uladzimir Kulistsikau, the head of the UDTRK (Russia) Aleh Dabradzeeu, the general director of the RenTV (Russia) Aliaksandr Ardzhanikidze, the general director of the "5th Channel" (Ukraine) Ivan Adamchuk, and the President of the Euronews directive board Philippe Cayla.
Liabedzka says that Ramanchuk's appeal to the leaders of the foreign TV-channels has served its political aim, which was to sharpen the situation in the media. According to Liabedzka, this appeal should break the "media-silence" created around the candidates.
Liabedzka: “There were certain informational possibilities at that stage. There was an hour of air time on TV, an hour on the radio. Some imitaion of TV- and radio-debates. But that was before. Now, at the final distance of the election campaign, there is a sharp transfer of all the informational possibilities to the advantage of the pro-authoritative candidate. Thus we react now”.
The recent events showed that the appeal to the foreign media was well-grounded. According to BelaPAN, the Belarusian FM-radio stations refused to broadcast presidential candidate Uladzimir Nyaklyaeu's agitation commercial. Among the radio stations which refused to broadcast the commercial there were the "Russian Radio", the "Radio BA", the "Radio Rox", the "Alpha Radio", the "Unistar". The web-site of the "Komsomolskaya Pravda in Belarus" also refused to publish the advertising materials.
Liabedzka says that Ramanchuk's appeal to the leaders of the foreign TV-channels has served its political aim, which was to sharpen the situation in the media. According to Liabedzka, this appeal should break the "media-silence" created around the candidates.
Liabedzka: “There were certain informational possibilities at that stage. There was an hour of air time on TV, an hour on the radio. Some imitaion of TV- and radio-debates. But that was before. Now, at the final distance of the election campaign, there is a sharp transfer of all the informational possibilities to the advantage of the pro-authoritative candidate. Thus we react now”.
The recent events showed that the appeal to the foreign media was well-grounded. According to BelaPAN, the Belarusian FM-radio stations refused to broadcast presidential candidate Uladzimir Nyaklyaeu's agitation commercial. Among the radio stations which refused to broadcast the commercial there were the "Russian Radio", the "Radio BA", the "Radio Rox", the "Alpha Radio", the "Unistar". The web-site of the "Komsomolskaya Pravda in Belarus" also refused to publish the advertising materials.
