Russia blocks entry to 4 Latvian media shops resulting from EU retaliatory sanctions

As reported, the 14th bundle of sanctions in opposition to Russia, which got here into power on Monday, contains, particularly, a ban on broadcasting 4 propaganda channels of the Vladimir Putin regime – Voice of Europe, RIA Novosti, Izvestia, and Rossiyskaya Gazeta.

The EU has acknowledged that these media are instruments of the Kremlin in its warfare in opposition to Ukraine.

The checklist of Western media revealed by Moscow which can be denied entry from Russian territory contains, particularly, such publications and businesses because the French information company AFP, the French newspaper Le Monde, the German weekly Der Spiegel, and the German newspapers Die Zeit and “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung”, Spanish newspapers “El Mundo” and “El Pais”, Italian newspapers “La Stampa” and “La Repubblica.

In Russia, entry to the Latvian public media website “lsm.lv”, information websites “apollo.lv” and “tvnet.lv” and the newspaper “Diena” can be blocked.

Allow us to observe that the majority Latvian portals have been blocked in Russia for greater than two years. It’s not clear why 4 of them ought to be blocked a second time.

The Kremlin additionally blocked entry to the web site of Lithuanian public broadcaster LRT, in addition to information websites lrytas.lt and 15min.lt.

Russia additionally banned entry to the web site of the Estonian public broadcaster ERR and the Estonian information website Delfi.ee.