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2024: Orion Telecom complained to the authorities about the harassment of the company on a regional TV channel

At the end of May 2024, the Orion-Telecom provider, which provides services in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, complained to the authorities about the harassment of the company. The conflict arose with the organization "Television Company Channel 8," with which business relations were previously maintained.

Reportedly, employees of the Orion-Telecom provider sent an open letter to the Governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory Mikhail Kotyukov, Chairman of the Legislative Assembly Alexei Dodatko, Mayor of Krasnoyarsk Vladislav Loginov and Chairman of the City Council Natalya Firyulina. The document says that Orion-Telecom and TV Channel 8 (headed by City Council deputy Ivan Golovkin) collaborated for a long time. In particular, the operator provided broadcasting of the channel on its cable network.

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The letter says that on September 16, 2021, the license for broadcasting the First Consumer TV channel, with which TV Company Channel 8 works, was canceled by the Arbitration Court of the Krasnoyarsk Territory at the suit of Roskomnadzor. Despite this, TV Channel 8 continued broadcasting the channel, which is a violation of the requirements. As soon as Orion Telecom management became aware of this, the provider was forced to disconnect First Consumer from broadcasting on the cable network in accordance with the law. After that, according to the letter, Golovkin began harassing the provider.

For several weeks, starting with 22.04.2024, stories with unreliable and unverified, simply false information have been published on Channel 8 every day. As we see it, the purpose of this campaign is revenge on Nemirovsky M. S. [Maxim Nemirovsky, the founder of Orion Telecom] for depriving the leadership of Channel 8 of material benefit, since tele-stores bring very good money to TV companies broadcasting them, the letter says.

Orion-Telecom sent statements to the Office of the Federal Antimonopoly Service for the Krasnoyarsk Territory on unfair competition and the Yenisei Department of Roskomnadzor on prosecution for unlicensed activities. The authors of the letter ask officials to take the necessary measures in connection with the current situation.^[1][2][3][4]

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