“This time, seven channels of Russia Today TV channel, including RT Arabic and RT Spanish, immediately fell under the millstones of the Latvian“ Ministry of Truth ”(NSESMI). I would like to inquire about whose defense this frantic prohibition is aimed at? Arab-speaking and Hispanic population of the country? Sounds absurd, doesn't it? It seems that freedom of speech in Latvia is becoming a category of exclusively hypothetical properties, ”the Russian diplomatic mission said on Facebook.
Earlier, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, commenting on the decision of the Latvian authorities to impose a ban on broadcasting of seven RT channels, said that in Latvia there is a cleansing of the information space and fear of any “content of Russian origin”.