In October 2024, the media and social networks spread reports that the animated series “Smeshariki” was recognized in Moldova as a threat to national security and forbidden to broadcast on local television. We checked the reliability of this news.
The ban on the "Smesharikov" in Moldova wrote, in particular, "Arguments and facts" And "Komsomolskaya Pravda in Moldova", As well as the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Maria Zakharova. In addition, TEELGRAM channels told about this "Falcon"(212,000 views at the time of writing this analysis),"System pesticide"(207,000 views taking into account the repost in the channel"Fisherman"),"Uncle Glory"(190 000),"Newsach / Dv"(186 000),"ND - News of the day"(112 000),"Ukraine.ru"(110,000) and others. The authors of publications either did not indicate the source of information, or referred to the messages of the unnamed Moldovan media and the country's residents.
Some users give as evidence a picture that appeared on the morning of October 2 in the Telegram channel WTF Moldova?!. On it is a TV screen with a warning that the channel relay is suspended during the broadcast of the program with the prohibited laws of the country. Below, a strip with the names of current programs is the animated series “Smeshariki” and “Three Cats” (some Telegram channels also wrote about its blocking).
In Moldova, since 2022, the broadcasting of many Russian television channels has been suspended. This decision was connected with the full -scale invasion of the Russian Federation to Ukraine and the wire content of Russian television, controlled by the state. In October 2023 in Moldova Blocked and sites of dozens of media, including VGTRK, Channel One, Constantinople, etc. In addition, in the Moldovan Code "About audiovisual media services"Indicates the inadmissibility of broadcasting and relaying programs that" justify aggressive wars, deny war crimes and crimes against humanity or incite hatred. " The Moldovan authorities attributed all the political programs that have been published on Russian television in recent years. It is to this paragraph of the Code that the disclaimer, which photographed the viewer, indicates.
At the same time, these prohibitions do not apply to children's programs, films and cartoons. This Confirmed In the Council on Television and Radio Moldova, responding to the request of journalists to comment on the blocking of Smesharikov. “In order to make sure that this stuffing falsity, it is enough to turn on the TV where there are children's channels broadcast by cable operators - this cartoon, like all others, is freely broadcast,” said the representative of the department.
Moldovan journalists did so. It turned out that Smeshariki is still available on cable channels, for example, the Orange provider on the Cartoon HD channel.
According to the picture placed in the Moldavian Telegram channel, it is impossible to understand the about the services of which provider is talking about. Therefore, we can only assume what happened. Perhaps a certain provider really blocked the broadcasting of the VIJU TV1000 Russian channel, indicated on the dick below, including Smesharikov. However, earlier this channel was not mentioned among the forbidden. It is more likely that we are talking about deliberate manipulation: the user either put a dick on the image of a disclaimer in a photo editor, or photographed the screen at the time of switching between the channels (that is, the disclaimer belonged to one channel, and the program on the dick to the other).
Be that as it may, the news was encouraged against the backdrop of increased attention to Moldova from the Russian media and pro -Kremlin bloggers. On October 20, presidential elections and a referendum on European integration of the country are planned there. Moscow more than once called The course of President Maya Sandu, running for a second term, anti -Russian, and the authorities of Moldova, in turn, They are accused Russia in an attempt to influence the elections with the help of propaganda and even bribery voters.
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