{"id":580865,"date":"2026-09-24T14:58:27","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T11:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=580865"},"modified":"2026-09-24T15:03:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T12:03:18","slug":"belarusian-information-ministry-sees-double-standards-in-latvia-s-ban-on-radio-belarus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/belarusian-information-ministry-sees-double-standards-in-latvia-s-ban-on-radio-belarus","title":{"rendered":"Belarusian Information Ministry Sees Double Standards in Latvia\u2019s Ban on Radio Belarus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The Belarusian Information Ministry strongly <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/mininform\/5990\">condemned<\/a> Latvia\u2019s ban on the distribution of the Radio Belarus program.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/latvia-bans-distribution-of-radio-belarus-including-online\">decision to impose the ban<\/a> was made by Latvia\u2019s National Electronic Mass Media Council (NEPLP). The Latvian regulator said the radio station had broadcast one-sided and biased information about Russia\u2019s war against Ukraine, justified Russian military aggression and published material in support of the Aliaksandr Lukashenka regime, while the station\u2019s promotional materials discredited Latvian state institutions.<\/p>\n<p>The Belarusian Information Ministry described the Latvian authorities\u2019 actions as censorship and an attempt to prevent the spread of \u201cobjective information.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe accusations made by NEPLP against the Belarusian radio station, formulated in the worst traditions of a double-standard policy, appear to be an undisguised desire by the Latvian authorities to prevent the spread of objective and reliable information.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>It is obvious that imposing censorship on media outlets deemed undesirable, including foreign ones, has become the hallmark of the Latvian authorities\u2019 work,\u201d<\/em> the Information Ministry said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Belarusian Information Ministry strongly condemned Latvia\u2019s ban on the distribution of the Radio Belarus program. The decision to impose the ban was made by Latvia\u2019s National Electronic Mass Media Council (NEPLP). The Latvian regulator said the radio station had broadcast one-sided and biased information about Russia\u2019s war against Ukraine, justified Russian military aggression and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":492085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/6ab51189d8d4d.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Belarusian Information Ministry Sees Double Standards in Latvia\u2019s Ban on Radio Belarus"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143090],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-580865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":580866,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580865\/revisions\/580866"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}