The key priority of work in the coming years is the development of content in the Latvian language.

And the Russian language must go away, the council fears that without these measures it will dominate.

"If we continue to support content in the Russian language and allow it to dominate our TVs, phones, computers and radio to an overwhelming extent, our information space will never strengthen," said NEPLP head Ivars

Obalinsh

.

At the end of 2022, 95 electronic mass media were registered in Latvia.

And the list of programs rebroadcast in Latvia includes 254 TV programs from 25 countries, most of which are available in Russian and English.

In Latvia, they plan to develop the media literacy of the population in order to promote "resistance to disinformation".

Earlier, a scandal broke out in Latvia surrounding the Russian independent TV channel "Dozhd", when its host called on the air to help Russian soldiers improve their conditions during the war.

The TV channel fired the presenter, but did not apologize for his words.

The authorities issued a warning to the channel, which was not the first - previously "Dozhd" showed on air a map with Crimea included in Russia, and also used the phrase "our army" in relation to the Russian occupation forces in Ukraine.

On December 8, the authorities of Latvia and Estonia stopped broadcasting the TV channel in their states.

The channel

's host, Aleksei Korastyalev, was included

in the "black list" of citizens who are prohibited from entering the country.

The Directorate of Citizenship and Migration Affairs (PMLP) of Latvia has decided to keep the visas of employees of Dozhd TV channel, whose broadcasting license was previously revoked by the National Council of Electronic Media.

Now the channel works online.