Saying “no to war” in their final telecast, the staff of TV Rain – among Russia’s few independent television channels – resigned on live television after an order to suspend operations due to the organisation’s coverage of the Ukraine crisis, NDTV reported.
The channel issued a statement saying that it had suspended operations indefinitely. The channel telecasted Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake as a mark of protest. According to the Indian Express, the move was a reference to August 1991, when Soviet TV stations showed the ballet performance instead of the civil unrest that had broken out in the country.
