A YEAR AFTER: MAIN VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN CRIMEA PART 4 The tender on the distribution of frequencies announced by the Federal Commu- nications, Information Technology and Mass Communications Supervision Service (Roskomnadzor) was not cancelled or postponed despite numerous appeals to the Russian Federation o7 cials, including the appeals on behalf of the Commissioner for Human Rights in the RF. The Crimean radio stations who desired to participate in the tender on frequency distribution faced several problems, like facing unreasonable application deadlines or refusal by local and federal authorities to recognize the procedure’s equity. In particular, one of the key documents required for participation in the tender was a universal broadcasting license. The deadline for the document application on Jan- uary 29, 2015 completely excluded the possibility of participation of Crimean radio companies who were unable to get the necessary documents by this time. The speciR cs of legal regulation of relations in the R eld of media in the Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol were legally determined only on December 1, 2014. The new media shall be registered within thirty working days. The waiting term for receiving of broadcasting license is also thirty business days. However, at least three Crimean companies who were permitted to participate in the tender received universal licenses only on February 11, 2015, according to the Roskomnadzor. Svetlana Razina, the editor of ‘Leader’ radio station, says that they submitted an incomplete set of documents, thus, were not admitted to to partici- pate in the tender. Therefore, Crimean media companies were unable to form and submit applications with the list of documents required for the participation in the tender for the lease of radiofrequencies even within the terms established by the law. Some of them were allowed to participate in the tender, while the majority were not. According to the tender results, the frequencies of six Crimean radio stations (Trans-M-Radio, Breeze TV and Radio Company, Morion TV and Radio Company, Leader radio station, Assol radio station, and Our City Radio) were handed over to other users. 24 frequencies were taken by 6 R rms owned by businessman Alexey Amelin. Six Crimean broadcasting companies sent a series of appeals to the Crimean and Russian authorities in order to postpone the deadline and the tender. There was no response from o7 cials of federal agencies, and the only public statement on the matter was made by Ella PamR lova, the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Rus- sian Federation (this statement was deleted from her o7 cial website several days 101