The independent Russian TV station Dozhd will no longer be accessible in Lithuania after the Latvian watchdog stripped it of its license, the Radio and Television Commission of Lithuania (LRTK) said on Tuesday.
The decision of Latvia’s National Electronic Mass Media Council (NEPLP) to strip the Russian TV channel operating in exile of its license will come into force on Thursday night, LRTK said.
The license gave Dozhd the right to distribute the content produced in EU countries, Russia, the US, and elsewhere.
Last week, NEPLP fined Dozhd 10,000 euros for displaying a map marking the occupied Crimea as Russian territory and for calling the Russian army “our army”. The TV segment in question also mentioned how viewers could help provide Russian troops with supplies and equipment.
At the beginning of June, Dozhd received permission from NELP to broadcast from a studio in Riga. Back in March, the TV channel suspended its operation in Russia, and many of its staff left the country due to the Russian law on the dissemination of fake news.
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