Estonia’s Consumer Protection and Technical Supervision Agency (TTJA) informed ISPs about 53 domain names through which it is possible to watch TV channels sanctioned in the European Union.
According to TTJA’s general director Kristi Talving, “the public opinion survey commissioned by the State Chancellery reveals that the mention of Russian channels as an important source of information has dropped from 33% to 11% over the year, and reliability from 40% to 18%. Based on these numbers, it can be said that the work on protecting the Estonian information space has been effective”.
TTJA goes on to say that to protect the information space and ensure compliance with sanctions, Estonia has restricted the availability of 195 websites and 51 TV channels.
It also says it continues to monitor TV channels and websites. In addition, it continues to inform communication companies about TV channels and websites whose distribution in Estonia must be stopped due to international sanctions.
TTJA also points out that in Estonia, viewers can still find a variety of Russian-language media content. It has issued operating licences to, for example, the Russian-language TV channels Kanal 7, Kanal 7+, Kino 7, Orsent TV, OTV, Semejka, Super Baltic, Super Plus and 3 + Estonia.
Furthermore, the Estonian National Broadcasting Company also has its own Russian-language TV channel named ETV+.