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* A Japanese channel may have shown an offensive video about Russia. This has been unproven. | * A Japanese channel may have shown an offensive video about Russia. This has been unproven. | ||
* Some believe that ORT canceled the show because Sergey Suponev, the director of children's programming of ORT, died in a snowmobile accident, and the new director supposedly did not like Pokémon. | * Some believe that ORT canceled the show because Sergey Suponev, the director of children's programming of ORT, died in a snowmobile accident, and the new director supposedly did not like Pokémon. | ||
* Others believe that Russian newspapers and the {{wp|yellow press}} pressured the station to cancel the show. Some reported that Pokémon was causing [[EP038|epileptic seizures]], others wrote that Pokémon "brainwashes children" with {{wp|subliminal stimuli}}. ORT didn't want its reputation to fall, so they stopped airing Pokémon. | * Others believe that Russian newspapers and the {{wp|yellow press}} pressured the station to cancel the show. Some reported that Pokémon was causing [[EP038|epileptic seizures]], others wrote that Pokémon "brainwashes children" with {{wp|subliminal stimuli#Consumption and television|subliminal stimuli}}. ORT didn't want its reputation to fall, so they stopped airing Pokémon. | ||
* ORT and the Japanese creators of the anime couldn't make an agreement on the price of licensing the anime. | * ORT and the Japanese creators of the anime couldn't make an agreement on the price of licensing the anime. | ||