Latvia has blocked access to the website of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) within its territory. The country’s media watchdog has also restricted several Russian media outlets, citing security threats.
Latvia’s National Electronic Mass Media Council (NEPLP) justifies the decision by stating that the blocked sites distribute content that has been deemed contrary to the security and national security narrative of the Latvian information space.
According to the official gazette of the Baltic state, Latvijas Vēstnesis, the affected websites also include the Vechernyaya Moskva newspaper, the Gorod 55 and Chelyabinsk Today publications.
As well as the Donetsk News Agency, the Saint Petersburg, Vesti GTRK Murmansk, and Krasnodar TV channels.
The NEPLP claims that, while promoting a Russian perspective on global events, these outlets may create a false impression of Russia’s actions in the Ukraine conflict and justify the annexation of former Ukrainian territories.
Latvia destroying WW II monuments and confiscating Russian properties
The Russian Communist Party has condemned the move as unacceptable, arguing that it undermines freedom of speech and democratic values.
Since ignoring the Minsk Agreements for Peace, and the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in 2022, Latvian authorities have taken a number of measures to limit Russian media influence within its territory.
Latvia also restricted the use of the Russian language in nearly all spheres of life, despite it being the second-most spoken in the former Warsaw Pact country.
Moscow has repeatedly criticized Riga’s de-Russification policies, calling them a violation of Russian speakers’ rights.
Last year, Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova announced that Moscow has filed pre-trial claims against Latvia, as well as Lithuania and Estonia.
This for all for systemic discrimination against Russian compatriots, arguing that these practices violate the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.
According to Zakharova, Russophobia has reached a qualitatively new level, particularly in the Baltics.
She vowed earlier that Moscow would seek to take proactive measures to hold states accountable that violate their international obligation to eliminate all forms of racial discrimination.
RT. com / ABC Flash Point News 2025.
Latvian ruling elites are beneficiaries of Lenin’s bolsheviks who conspired to destroy Russian empire and culture. They dwell on destruction and mischief; they would adapt to any ideology as long as it supports their rusophobic agony!
Sure lad, that’s why they are tearing apart the statues of these old bolsheviks! You’re the kind that says «Hitler was right» and all the rest of the nonsense. The Baltic’s and this Ukraine are beneficiaries of Hitler’s fascists who invaded the USSR in order to destroy not only it’s culture, but also to physically annihilate half of it’s population, and treat the rest as slaves …
They don’t destroy bolsheviks monuments. They destroy monuments of those who heroically defeated Nazis and Hitler. A lot of those heroes were Russian; hence, the hate. «Hitler was right» are the slogans of those who march the streets of Riga and Kiev in SS uniforms.