PART 4 A YEAR AFTER: MAIN VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN CRIMEA Due to the systematic persecution in Crimea, the editors of the Crimean Tatar TV channel ATR decided to continue their activities in the mainland Ukraine and to resume broadcasting in Crimea through satellite TV. In response, on June 18, 2015, the Chairman of the Committee on Information Pol- icy, Communication and Mass Communications of the Crimea State Council Sergey Shuvaynikov said that the journalists of the ATR TV channel, which resumed its broadcasting via satellite from Kyiv, will be held responsible in case of violation of the Russian legislation when preparing their reports. In addition, Shuvaynikov pub- licly accused TV channel of the alleged “political provocation and incitement to hos- tility between Russia and Ukraine, between the people residing in Crimea”. However, in late February 2016, two years after the annexation, ATR faced R nancial hardship. The campaign “Save ATR” was launched, calling upon all the concerned parties to support the channel. Chernomorskaya TV and Radio Company At the time of occupation, the Chernomorskaya TV and Radio Company (ChTRK) belonged to An- drey Senchenko, the former Member of the Parlia- ment of Ukraine from Batkivshchyna faction. The company faced problems from the R rst days of the annexation of Crimea. In particular, on April 11, 2014, the television crew was attacked by ‘Crime- an self-defense’ who destroyed a U ash drive with video material. On June 29, ChTRK was disabled in cable networks. On August 1, 2014, the ChTRK property was arrested property was arrested. The Crimean TV and Radio Broadcasting Center of Crimea (RTPC) acted as a plaintiT . The TV compa- ny’s debt to RTPC was above UAH 1 million, and arose before the annexation of Crimea. Meanwhile, as reported by Lyudmila Zhuravleva, ChTRK Acting President, the RT- PC’s claim to Chernomorskaya company about the debt has not been reviewed by a court of R rst instance. However, all property and equipment of TV company was ar- rested, which, in fact, led to work termination. Zhuravleva also reported that ChTRK had a counterclaim to RTPC for the illegal use of private property, i.e., transmitters and frequencies. Since March 2014, RTPC held 13 transmitters privately owned by Chernomorskaya TV company. 104