OREANDA-NEWS. The Latvian National Council for Electronic Media (NEPLP) on Tuesday banned the retransmission of 16 more Russian-language TV channels in the country, including REN TV Baltic and NTV Mir Baltic. This decision was announced on Twitter by the chairman of the council Ivars Abolins. The ban was imposed on the channels REN TV Baltic, NTV Mir Baltic, Karusel International, NTV Serial, NTV Style, NTV Pravo, Kinomiks, Nashe Novoe Kino, Rodnoe Kino, Indian Kino , "Kinokomediya", "Kinoseriya", "KVN TV", "Kitchen TV", "Box TV", HD Life. Explaining the move to ban Russian TV channels again, Abolins wrote: "In order to protect the Latvian information space, NEPLP will be strengthened to check all programs in the register of relayed programs and if it detects similar cases, it will act accordingly."