As Rakhmonov asserts that the RSTVRC has run into debt to the Tajik side RUB 4,8 mln for technical services. Besides, the Committee head drew attention to the fact that the electricity tariffs in the country had been raised; however, the service of the “RTR-Planet”, according to him, is still carried on at the old prices. “In case the debts are not paid off in the nearest future, the RTR frequency will be given to one of the local channels”, “Interfax” quotes.
The agency notes that the “RTR-Planet” is today the only Russian TV channel, the programs of which are broadcast in a meter diapason in the territory of Tajikistan. The Russian “ORT” was cut off in the republic in 1997.
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