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The Real Reason

Dec 04

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RIGA – And there you have it – the real reason why LTV decided to postpone the anti-Putin film – I wouldn’t call it a documentary, you know.

Showing of the French documentary “The Putin’s System” on Latvian Television on Dec. 1, one day before the Russian Duma elections, could have been considered as an “unfriendly gesture”

Abrams Kleckins, the head of a government agency responsible for TV and radio broadcasting in this country said this morning in the parliament.

Broken tape or not, but the television station is showing this film as I write these words. And they’ll do a rerun of the film this weekend.

But it’s really not about the film any more. It’s about the domestic fear to screw things up ahead of the Russian-Latvian border treaty conclusion, or to step on someone’s big toes.