Litauen & Rysk TV
2021-02-19
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RT
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Latvia's parliament has adopted a bill in its final reading that will criminalize people for watching unauthorized TV channels. Unfortunately for tens of thousands of Russian-speaking Latvians, the blacklist will include dozens of Russian television channels.
More than one in three Latvians speaks Russian at home, but dozens of broadcasters showing programs in the language have had their licenses revoked and been banned from the country’s airwaves since earlier this month. With the passing of this new legislation, viewers will face financial penalties if they are caught watching illicit programming.
Ivars Abolins, the chairman of Latvia’s National Council for Electronic Media, issued a statement backing the ban. ‘We have protected, are protecting, and will protect our information space,’ he said. Regulators claim that talk show guests on the Russian-speaking channels have incited hatred and called for war in Europe. The Russian Embassy in Riga reacted to this in a Facebook post by saying that the policy was ‘in the best traditions of dictatorship.’
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