Russia Shuts Down TV Station Serving Crimean Tatars

Russia pulled the plug on the last independent television station serving Crimean Tatars, continuing what members of the Tatar minority called a pattern of discrimination because of their opposition to Russia’s annexation of the Black Sea peninsula. The station, ATR, had been broadcasting under a Ukrainian license that expired on March 31. Its four applications for a new, Russian license were rejected by Roskomnadzor, Moscow’s media regulator, according to the channel’s managers.