He pointed out that this is foreseen by the amendments to the concept of the Minorities Multimedia Platform approved at the SEPLP meeting on Thursday, 5 September. The changes will also be seen in the public order.
Currently, the only regular program in Russian on LTV7 is "Tonight. LSM+news".
Šodien SEPLP sēdē apstiprinājām grozījumus Mazākumtautību multimediju platformas koncepcijā, apstiprinot plānu, ka no 2025.gada. 1.janvāra LTV7 saturu nodrošinās tikai valsts valodā. Izmaiņas tiks nofiksētas arī sabiedriskajā pasūtījumā.
— Jānis Eglītis (@egliitis) September 5, 2024
Ivars Priede, Head of Latvian Television (LTV), confirmed to LSM.lv that the LTV Minorities Concept stipulates that from 2025, LTV will no longer schedule Russian-language content on air, but only social media and the LSM+ platform.
The Latvian National Security Concept stipulates that as of January 1, 2026, content produced by public media should be only in Latvian and in languages belonging to the European cultural sphere, while local content in Russian can continue to exist in commercial media.
Latvian Radio (LR) and LTV categorically objected to the concept that from 2026 the public service media should no longer produce content in Russian, the language of the largest minority living in Latvia. SEPLP also objected a year ago, calling for the removal of the paragraph in the Concept that Russian-language content should only be allowed in commercial media.
