The Russian TV channel Dozhd, which got into a scandal in December due to its alleged support for the Russian army, received a five-year license to broadcast in the Netherlands, according to POLITICO..

From December 22, 2022, Dozhd has been granted permission to provide commercial television broadcasting services through the TV Dozhd program channel for a period of five years,” the Dutch regulator said in a statement.. Channel license provides only television broadcasting.

As you know, Dozhd suspended its activities in the Russian Federation shortly after Moscow launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February last year..

The channel had been operating in exile from Latvia since last July, until its broadcasting license was rescinded by the Latvian regulator in early December due to concerns about the channel's coverage of the war in Ukraine..

Dozhd has already opened a TV studio in Amsterdam.

“TV Rain will move its editorial center to Amsterdam. The Amsterdam studio will become the main studio of the TV channel,” Dozhd said in a statement..

The TV channel also reported that it had appealed against the “unfair” decision of the Latvian National Council.

“The decision was made behind closed doors without the opportunity for representatives of TV Rain to express their arguments,” the channel’s representatives believe.. The message also says that Dozhd will protect its reputation, but will not require the restoration of the Latvian license..

Recall that the scandal around Dozhd arose due to statements in the plot of the TV channel dated December 1, host Alexei Korostelev, who said that the channel helps with the equipment of Russian soldiers: “We hope that many military personnel, including, we were able to help. with equipment and with just basic amenities at the front"

Subsequently, this piece of video was cut from the program, and the editor-in-chief Tikhon Dzyadko stated that the channel "

The TV channel fired Korostelev and apologized. At the same time, some colleagues of the presenter said that the editors were unfair to him and announced their dismissal.

Within a few days after the scandal, the broadcasting operators of the Baltic countries stopped broadcasting the Russian TV channel.

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The Ukrainian National Council on Television and Radio Broadcasting ordered providers to stop rebroadcasting the Russian TV channel Dozhd back in 2017 due to the fact that its journalists did not condemn the annexation of Crimea by Russia.