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• Discussion on how to counter Russia’s propaganda held in Riga

Vesti Segodnya reports about discussion “Propaganda of Censored Media in Information Space” organised by the Latvian Transatlantic Organisation. Participants, including the MPs and journalists, discussed the impact of Russia’s propaganda distributed through media on the society and how to counter it. According to the head of the National Council on Electronic Mass Media Ainars Dimants, production of content in Russian language in local media could help to neutralise Russia’s propaganda and meet the needs of Russian speaking residents. The funding granted to public media for Russian language programmes in 2014 already helped to increase the audience of the Latvian Television Channel 7. Mr Dimants also informed that Latvian television currently is working on a concept of a new Russian language channel which would be able to produce content for diverse audience.