Executive director of the Rossiya Segodnya International Information Agency Kirill Vyshinsky holds a placard reading "Stop Crackdown on journalists in Latvia" during a single-person picket against the persecution of Baltnews and Sputnik journalists in Latvia, in front of the Reception House of Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in Moscow, Russia. On December 2020, several Russian-speaking Latvian stringers who work with Sputnik and Baltnews, among other outlets, had their apartments searched and were prohibited from leaving the country on suspicion of breaking the EU sanctions. Baltnews and Sputnik Latvia are connected to Rossiya Segodnya information agency.
- Author: Kirill Kallinikov
- Source: Sputnik
- Credit: Sputnik
- Original: Digital
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