Latvia, Lithuania ban Russia TV broadcasts

NEW.COM.AU ^ | 8 April 2014 | Unknown

[elhombrelibre]

LATVIA is joining Lithuania in banning Russian state television broadcasts because it found that several programs about the Ukraine crisis were tendentious and not in the Baltic country's security interests.

Latvian media council spokeswoman Sanita Blomniece said on Monday that a three-month suspension of RTR Rossiya broadcasts will begin on April 8.

[elhombrelibre]

Bad news for the wholly Putin-owned, pro-Russian propaganda machine. The Russian media today serves the same purpose as the old Soviet media, support the Emperor, Ausustus Putin, President for Life, owner of a coold $75 Billion Dollars! Putistas whining expected over the pushback against Putin's propaganda.

[VeniVidiVici]

I’m sure we’ll hear Putin soon denounce this as a ‘provocation’.

[elhombrelibre]

I am too. So these countries got stuck with Russians in their country and that gives Putin an excuse to exploit their resources too under the guise of Russian chauvinism. What a bunch of hooey.