a minute agoMedia authority bans nine Russian television stations
Periskopi(7 years ago)
(7 years ago)The Latvian authority in charge of the media today announced the ban on nine Russian television stations after the European Union decreed sanctions against one of their owners, a banker linked to the Kremlin. The European Union included billionaire Yours Kovaltchouk in 2014 on the list of personalities targeted by sanctions undertaken in response to the annexation of Crime. [...]
The European Union included billionaire Yri Kovaltchouk in 2014 on the list of personalities targeted by sanctions undertaken in response to Russia's annexation of Crime.
These nine stations are banned in Latvia because one of their owners. Your Kovaltchouk has been placed on the EU's list of sanctions as a person involved in violations of sovereignty, territorial integrity and independence of Ukraine”, Ivars Abolins, vice president of the Latvian National Council for Electronic Media (NEPLP), said.
The ban will be in effect as long as Kovaltchouk will participate in the list of persons hit by EU sanctions. / AT S/
