When Russian Churches Tried to Ban Cartoons

 

Sources:

1. 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany ™ - FIFA (Archive)
2. “TV channel "2x2" is left without its main heroine” - RB (Archive)

3.  “Multivitamins for adults” - Ogonyok Magazine via Kommersant

4.  “Prof-Media goes to market, raises $250 mil” - Hollywood Reporter

5.  “TV channel "2x2" is left without its main heroine” - RB (Archive)

6.  “Russian TV is finding its niche” - Hollywood Reporter

7.  “Zero television” - Open Space

8.  “Not children's television for grown-up children” - Bek

9.  “Prof-Media bought the 2x2 TV channel” - NEWSmuz

10.  “Channel ‘2x2’ - don't turn it on, it will kill you!” - Press-Attache (Archive) via Wikipedia

11.  “Cocktail of tears” - Literaturnaya Gazeta (Archive) via Wikipedia

12.  “2x2 agreed not to kill animals” - Gazeta.ru

13.  “Multivitamins for adults” - Ogonyok Magazine via Kommersant

14.  “Educational Rambler will become an entertaining ‘2x2’” - Sostav

15.  “Observation diary - ‘THE SIMPSONS" NON-STOP’” - Kommersant

16.  “Cartoons for younger adults” - Kommersant 

17.  “What Natalia Vashko was wearing in April 2007” - Afisha magazine via RB (Archive)

18.  “Observation dairy - SIMPLE AS TWO TIMES TWO” - Kommersant

19.  “Media holding Prof-Media acquired the Rambler TV channel” - RIA Novosti

20.  “Russian metals tycoon buys Rambler Media” - Reuters via Kommersant

21.  “Natalia Vashko parted ways with cartoons” - Kommersant 

22.  “TV-3 in one” - Kommersant  

23.  “‘2x2’ is not a channel for children” - Fontanka News

24.  Rossvyazokhrankultura via Argumenty i Fakty

25.  “TV channel ‘2x2’ will challenge the warning of Rossvyazokhrankultura about the cruelty of cartoons” - RB (Archive)

26.  “Committees and commissions” - The Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation (Archive)

27.  “Advisory Council of the Heads of Protestant Churches of Russia” - Kommersant

28.  “The Prosecutor General's Office was invited to cartoons” - Kommersant via ANN

29.  “Religious figures continue attack on television” - Kommersant

30.  “Muslims join campaign against 2x2 TV channel” - Media News2 via Kommersant

31.  “‘2x2’ has become a mouthpiece for Satanism” - Gazeta.ru 

32.  “President of the ProfMedia holding Rafael Akopov: ‘It has long been known who shouts the loudest: ‘Catch the thief!’” - Izvestia (Archive)

33.  “The Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation made a submission to Rossvyazkomnadzor in connection with violations of children's rights committed by the 2x2 TV and radio company” - Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation (Archive)

34.  “Prosecutor's Office Accuses 'South Park' Cartoon of Extremism” - Kommersant

35.  “The prosecutor's office is unhappy with the cartoon” - Kommersant

36.  Moscow Forensic Expertise Department

37.  “Cartoons caught in extremism and pornography” - Izvestia (Archive)

38.  “The Prosecutor General's Office against ‘2x2’” - 2x2 (Archive)

39.  “Celebrities for 2x2” (1) - 2x2 (Archive)

40.  “Celebrities for 2x2” (2) - 2x2 (Archive)

41.  “Celebrities for 2x2” (3) - 2x2 (Archive)

42. “Morality VS Broadcast Frequency” - 2x2 (Archive)

43.  “‘Family’ rated cartoons for adults” - Kommersant

44.  “About the Federal Competition Commission for Television and Radio Broadcasting” - Federal Service for Supervision of Communications (Archive)

45.  “TV channel ‘2x2’ was protected from protesters by a protest action” - Kommersant

46.  “Signatures in support of 2x2” - 2x2 (Archive)

47.  “First results” - 2x2 (Archive)

48.  “Collection of signatures” - 2x2 (Archive)

49.  “There are more and more of us” - 2x2 (Archive)

50.  “TV channel ‘2x2’ went to court” - 2x2 (Archive)

51.  “Change in the program guide” - 2x2 (Archive)

52.  “‘2x2’ removes extremism through the courts” - Kommersant

53.  “Pickets in defense 2x2” - 2x2 (Archive)

54.  “2x2 will die from youth policy” - Gazeta.ru

55.  “Rally in support of embattled TV station showing US cartoons” - AP (YouTube)

56.  “‘Cartoons for adults!’” - Kommersant

57.  “The alien intelligence retreated.” - 2x2 (Archive)

58.  “It wasn't clear as ‘2x2’” - Kommersant

59.  “Rossvyazkomnadzor has decided to extend the license of the 2x2 TV channel” - Rossvyazkomnadzor (Archive)

60.  “2x2 to be!” - 2x2 (Archive)

61.  “Court orders linguistic examination of South Park cartoon” - Kommersant

62.  “Russian censorship complaints against anime ‘GTO’” - Variety Japan (Archive) via ANN

63.  “Moscow City Court Does Not Recognize South Park Animated Series as Extremist” - Kommersant

64.  “‘2X2’ is being checked like crazy” - Kommersant

65.  “The prosecutor's office was asked to leave ‘South Park’” - Kommersant