He made a corresponding statement during his speech at the 43rd session of the UN Human Rights Council.
“In the Baltic countries, the suppression of media freedom, the prosecution of dissent, the violation of the rights of national minorities, up to the shameful phenomenon of statelessness, has become the norm. Extremist parties, movements and groups engaged in the spread of the ideology of Nazism, racial superiority, discrimination and xenophobia feel more and more at ease, ”RIA Novosti quotes him.
According to him, when Russia points to the West on these facts, only “bashful references to concern for freedom of speech and peaceful assembly” are heard from there.
Earlier, the journalist of the Izvestia Information Center Andrei Zakharov was not allowed into Latvia, and at the request of Estonia, his Schengen visa was canceled for three years.
On January 1, the Sputnik Estonia agency went into emergency operation, its employees were forced to terminate their employment with the editorial board due to the threat of criminal prosecution.
Also on November 20, 2019, the National Council for Electronic Media of Latvia decided to suspend the broadcast of nine television channels in the country. In this regard, Russia expressed concern and called on the OSCE Special Representative for Freedom of the Media to respond to this.