At a Thursday meeting the National Television and Radio Broadcasting Council of Ukraine decided to ban three Russian channels - Questions and Answers TV Channel, Usadba (Estate) TV, and House Pets TV from the list of foreign television channels with permission for retranslation in Ukraine.

According to the press service of the National Council, the grounds for excluding these channels were the placement of commercial advertising by these broadcasters, which is a violation of the requirements of Part 9, Article 13 of the Law of Ukraine "On Advertising" – it is forbidden to "transmit (retransmit) advertising in programs on channels of foreign broadcasting organizations that are broadcasted (rebroadcasted) on the territory of Ukraine, if the foreign broadcasting organizations do not fall under the jurisdiction of member states of the European Union or states, which have ratified the European Convention on Transfrontier Television".

"The ruling will come into force in a month after its adoption. If the owners or distributors of these programs guarantee eliminating violations, the National Council may reconsider its decision," the statement says.

Having considered the appeals of LLC Sport Media Group (Riga), and guided by the requirements of Article 13 of the Ukrainian Law "On Protection of Public Morality", the regulator allowed it to rebroadcast the erotic program NuArt TV on cable from midnight to 04:00.