17:19 06.09.2016

Activists unblock Inter's office, give 5 days for Shuvalov's dismissal, change of information policy

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Activists unblock Inter's office, give 5 days for Shuvalov's dismissal, change of information policy

Activists have unblocked the office of Inter TV channel after its management promised to take certain personnel decisions and change the channel's information policy for pro-Ukrainian one, spokesman for the Holy Mary battalion Andriy Vatolkin has said.

"We have indeed unblocked the Inter TV channel. Our initiative group has been negotiating and received a promise that within five days the situation in the channel will change substantially," Vatolkin told Interfax-Ukraine on Tuesday.

In his words, the channel's management has promised to dismiss Deputy Director for Development of the National Information Systems, which produces news programs for Inter, Russian citizen, Igor Shuvalov, and take a number of other steps.

"They also talked about changing the content. Inter will give up a large number of Russian content and the channel's information policy will be changed based on a normal pro-Ukrainian position," Vatolkin said.

According to him, the protesters have dispersed, but if the channel's leadership doesn't keep its promises in five days, the blockade will be resumed.

At the moment, tents outside the channel's office were removed and activists have dispersed, leaving only a pile of tires.

As reported, in the morning of September 5, the next day after an arson in the office of the National Information Systems, several dozen activists gathered and set up several tents outside the office of the Inter TV Channel on Dmytrivska Street in Kyiv. They wrote "Kremlin's Henchmen", "Inter Get Out!" on the fence. Later, tires were brought to the office and the activists blocked the driveway to the building with them.

In the morning of Tuesday, September 6, about fifty people continued blocking Inter's office.

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