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| Subject: EU could launch European TV channel to combat 'aggressive' Russian propaganda Mon Jan 05, 2015 6:17 pm | |
| The European TV channel would feature entertainment as well as “very factually accurate news”, and should not be another propaganda tool, Edgars Rinkēvičs, the foreign minister of Latvia, told BuzzFeed News in an interview.
As many as 15 EU member states - including those in the east, the UK, Scandinavia and Poland - have informally supported the plan.
Washington and Europe have toyed with the idea of a Russian-language station since President Vladmir Putin began extending the Kremlin’s grip over the country’s media a decade ago.
In October, Putin signed into law a measure to curtail foreign ownership of media outlets in Russia, tightening the Kremlin's control over some of the nation's most important independent publications, which featured news criticising Putin and his allies in a tumultuous year.
The stations would largely be aimed at Latvia and neighbouring Estonia, which are home to the largest proportion of Russian-speakers in the EU, and watch Russian TV.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/eu-could-launch-european-tv-channel-to-combat-aggressive-russian-propaganda-9953129.html |
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