Prosecutors found on the “Rain” violation of labor laws – BBC Russian

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Ostankino district prosecutor’s office found on the channel “Rain” violation of labor laws and fire safety regulations.

In the statement on the website of the Moscow prosecutor’s office said that the violations are non-trivial character, but at the same time, do not apply to gross shall not affect the rights and freedoms of citizens and can be removed in the established order.

In this regard, the prosecutor’s office has made a manual channel representation with the requirement to eliminate the detected violations of the law.

In this case, the prosecutor’s office has not yet reported on the results of checking the channel on extremism, held simultaneously with the verification of compliance with fire safety regulations and labor law.

Extremism & Fire

With the prosecutor’s check on the private independent television channel “Rain” came on 7 December. The reason for it became some complaints of citizens, and its subject – the observance of the law on countering terrorism and extremism.

In addition, the prosecutor’s office had checked the TV channel of the labor legislation and laws on licensing activities. Using the service, prosecutors want to read the documents and inspect premises channel.

The prosecutor’s office also requested a copy of the lease of premises, staffing, labor regulations, job descriptions, instructions on labor protection, register of accidents and more than ten documents.

Following the prosecutors to inspect were firefighters from the MOE, and then to the editor “Rain” came to the notice of the on-site inspection by representatives of the tax service.

A few days later check commented on the OSCE. Its representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatovic, said that a new wave of inspections channel “Rain” can be regarded as interference in the work of the independent television channel.

“Rain” – one of the last of television media in Russia, beyond the control of the state.

Scandals and verification

In September, a request to check the channel “Rain” on compliance with legislation and license conditions in the prosecutor’s office sent a deputy of the State Duma and leader of the party “Rodina” Alexey Zhuravlev. According to him, the license channel does not involve placing the air content to other broadcasters.

“However, the reality TV” Rain “systematically trasliruet products British Bi-bi-si, and Russian news service Bi-bi-si, and as German TV Deutsche Welle “, – said in a statement on the website of the party” Motherland “.

The TV channel” Rain “has already attracted the attention of Russian control. So, in 2014, it happened against the background of the scandal surrounding the delivery of the feasibility survey of Leningrad Nazis, who conducted the channel in the “Twitter”.

Soon television excluded from all cable networks, which threatened its existence. Also in the same year, “Rain” was evicted from its old wording in the “Red October”. Also claims to “rain” from a mismatch of the actual broadcast of the address specified in the license to Roskomnadzor stated.