The international organization Reporters Without Borders appealed to the Latvian authorities with a request not to revoke the broadcasting license of the Dozhd TV channel (the organization is included in the list of foreign agents by the Ministry of Justice). It is reported by Delfi.lv.

In an appeal to Ivars Abolins, chairman of the National Council for Electronic Media, the organization claims that the TV channel "is an important and one of the few remaining sources of independent and reliable information that Russian journalists broadcast to the Russian-speaking population."

Reporters Without Borders is confident that the revocation of the license from the media will be a "terrible blow" to the right to information of the Russian-speaking population in Russia and around the world.

Earlier, the editor-in-chief of Dozhd called the words of the journalist Korostelev a “mistake” after his words on the air that the TV channel allegedly helps Russian servicemen in a special operation in Ukraine. The presenter was fired from the TV channel.

Ivars Abolins, head of the Latvian National Media Council, said that Dozhd had been fined 10,000 rubles because of the appearance on the TV channel of a map on which the Crimean peninsula was included in Russia. Latvian Defense Minister Artis Pabriks announced the start of preparations for the expulsion of Dozhd journalists.