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• Latvijas Avize criticises Latvian television for inviting controversial figure Ilarions Girss to take part in a political discussion broadcast 

Latvijas Avize criticises Latvian public television’s LTV7 for inviting Ilarions Girss to take part in Russian-language political discussion broadcast. Latvijas Avize questions whether persons who are openly hostile to Latvian state and ethnic Latvians should be given an opportunity to speak at public television as well as reminds its readers that Ilarions Girss is a radical politician, whose name is mentioned in the annual report of the Security Police and that criminal proceedings were opened against Mr.Girss. Moderator of the discussion highlighted that inviting Mr.Girss was appropriate given the topic of the discussion – “The provocateurs and the provoked”. Other representatives of LTV7 argued that it is better to be aware of Mr.Girss’ views rather than to keep it underground and wait for an explosion, as well as highlighted that there were many participants, who represented diverse opinions during the discussion. Communication specialist Anda Rozukalne gave example of BBC, which also invite controversial figures to its broadcasts. Anda Rozukalne also complained that not that many “normal” Latvian Russians are shown in Latvian TV broadcasts.