What I read today on Gazeta.ru made me realize the future of the cartoon channel 2×2 really might already be pre-determined, but not by the Christian groups.
While the Federal Commission on Frequencies decides today what to do with 2×2 (“Hmmm..do we take away their licence or not yet?..”), several “youth channel” projects are already on their tables. Pavel Tarakanov of the Federal Committee on Youth Issues decided not to wait until the Commission’s decision and mentioned that the channel’s frequences might be given to a youth television channel instead. He said that in a radio show this weekend. Several crews from Samara and Ulyanovsk jumped at the idea and contacted him immediately. No wonder: Any independent (especially regional) youth project is highly underfinanced in Russia. These guys couldn’t even dream of an opportunity to broadcast to Moscow and St. Petersburg.
With everyone in the government and regions and cultural circles excited about a potential youth-oriented educational channel, I wonder whether this is the real reason why the prosecution was so quick to come out with warnings to the contraversial cartoon network.
