“After almost a week, Estonia joined the campaign to protect the Spanish and Arab-speaking population from RT. Now our channel can be banned there too. Following Latvia and Lithuania. CTD, ”said Simonyan.
Earlier, Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Reinsalu said that he endorses the decision of the Latvian authorities to ban the broadcasting of seven RT channels. According to him, Estonia will analyze the effectiveness of such a measure as the “implementation of financial sanctions”.
On June 30, the National Council of Electronic Media (NEPLP) of Latvia decided to ban the broadcasting of seven RT channels in the country, in accordance with the sanctions imposed by the EU Council.
The TV channels RT, RT HD, RT Arabic, RT Spanish, RT Documentary HD, RT Documentary, RT TV were banned.
On July 2, the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry announced that it would be recommended that the Radio and Television Commission subordinate to the parliament prohibit the broadcasting of RT group TV channels.
The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, called the ban on broadcasting RT in Latvia by cleansing the information space.