KIEV, November 14. /TASS/. The Ukrainian Parliament prepares to adopt a bill allowing to block Ukrainian media that are suspected of supporting "terrorist activities," the head of the country’s National Journalists Union, Sergei Tomilenko, said on Tuesday.

"The parliament has launched another attack on the Ukrainian media. Under the slogans of ‘protecting the information space’ it was suggested to pass a bill that would justify sanctions [and] blocking of Ukrainian TV stations," the Ukrainian official wrote on Facebook.

The bill in question contains a broader definition of terrorist activity, which includes, among other things, "information support (such as creation and dissemination of information that supports, propagates, popularizes or covers in a positive context) to terrorist organizations." The bill also outlaws similar support to "illegal armed groups and other entities that carry out, take part in or assist in the terrorist activities, occupation of Ukraine’s territory and armed aggression against Ukraine."

According to Tomilenko, such a vague definition of terrorist activity will give the Ukrainian government an opportunity to label any media outlet as an "abettor of terrorists."

"Right now, the lawmakers turned those measures into an instrument for protecting their political interests," he said.

Earlier, the Ukrainian authorities have repeatedly accused TV channels 112.Ukraine and Newsone of allegedly biased coverage of the 2014 coup and the civil conflict in the east of the country. On October 3, three major pro-presidential parties - Pyotr Poroshenko Bloc, Self Reliance and People’s Front put forward a proposal to impose sanctions on those channels for "anti-Ukrainian activities, echoing of Russian propaganda and dissemination of the terrorist ideology," and to ban their "anti-Ukrainian activities." The parliament approved the proposal on October 4.

The Kiev government views all authorities and law-enforcement structures of the self-proclaimed territories in the east of Ukraine as terrorist organizations, although they have not been recognized as such by any other country or any international organization.