Latvia’s National Electronic Mass Media Council (NEPLP) has revoked the broadcasting license of Dozhd TV (or TV Rain, declared to be a foreign agent media in Russia), the council’s head Ivars Abolins wrote on Twitter on Tuesday, according to TASS
his loyal supporters rounded on me in a coordinated attack. vladimir putin is presenting this as just another working visit. .. i ve reported from russia for two decades, the whole span of vladimir putin s presidency. there have been highs, like the world cup. but i ve also charted the slow erosion of freedoms here the crackdown on dissent. a year ago, the government put me on short term visas. then i became the news as state television announced i had to leave. after tense negotiations, i had been allowed to enter russia, but only to pack. i was then told my visa wouldn t be renewed. supposedly what happened to a russian reporter in london though that was two years ago. it s happening as the pressure on russian journalists who don t toe the kremlin line is intensifying. dozhd tv has just been added to a growing blacklist of media labelled foreign agents
put me on short term visas. then i became the news as state television announced i had to leave. after tense negotiations, i had been allowed to enter russia, but only to pack. i was then told my visa wouldn t be renewed. supposedly what happened to a russian reporter in london though that was two years ago. it s happening as the pressure on russian journalists who don t toe the kremlin line is intensifying. dozhd tv has just been added to a growing blacklist of media labelled foreign agents for getting funds from abroad. the status of foreign agents means that we dozhd we are enemies of the state. the pretending of being a democracy is over. it is very bad and it could become much worse any time. so i m leaving a country i first came to as the soviet
to the north korea, or maybe welcome to the ussr. right now, in 2022, you cannot destroy all the voices of the truth. you cannot do it. for staff, the news came as a shock. it is the end of an era for ekho and for russia. more than any other media outlets in russia, this radio station was a symbol, a symbol of freedom of speech and democratic values that russia embraced after the fall of communism freedoms which are now under threat. soon after, another blow to independent media here. dozhd tv announced it was closing. ekaterina kotrikadze is a russian journalist and former head of news at tv dozhd in russia.