Latvia’s National Electronic Mass Media Council (NEPLP) has excluded 16 Russian channels from the list of services allowed to be distributed in the country.
According to the regulator, it has taken the action as their representative in Latvia has not been known since the beginning of February.
The previous rights holder SIA Tem LV informed NEPLP that it was no longer so as of February 1.
The ban on the channels, which include Ren TV Baltic, NTV Mir Baltic, Karusel International, NTV Serial, Nashe Novoye Kino and Rodnoye Kino, will take effect at midnight on February 10.
