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Latvia blocked the website of the Sputnik agency
Latvia blocked the website sputniknews.lv, where news from the Russian state agency Sputnik was published.
According to whois data, this domain is registered to Rossiya Segodnya, another Russian government agency.
As Vedomosti notes with reference to the decision of the Latvian authorities, the registration of the Sputnik domain in the European domain zone violates the restrictions imposed on Russian government organizations.
The Russian Foreign Ministry called the blocking “blatant censorship.”
The letter states that violation of the provisions of this resolution may become the basis for criminal prosecution in Latvia.
- The Sputnik agency was launched in May 2014; it works in more than 30 languages. The Latvian version launched on February 12, 2016.
- Now Russia Today is suing Latvia for the right to open its representative office there. The court will make a decision on April 5.