VKontakte, Odnoklassniki and My World will be blocked in Latvia

The decision was made due to EU sanctions imposed against Yuri Kovalchuk and Vladimir Kiriyenko,whom the Latvian authorities call the owners of social networks

The National Council for Electronic Media (NSESM) has decided to block Russian social networks in Latvia, the HEAD of the NSESM, Ivars Abolins, said on Twitter.

“In accordance with the sanctions imposed by the European Union, the NSESM has decided to restrict the activities of VKontakte (vk.com), Odnoklassniki (ok.ru) and Moi Mir (my.mail.ru) in Latvia,” he wrote. he specified that the platforms would be blocked next week.

According to him, the decision was made because of the evidence that the NSESM allegedly has that the platforms are owned and controlled by Yuri Kovalchuk and Vladimir Kiriyenko, who previously fell under Western sanctions .

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Yury Kovalchuk, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Rossiya Bank, came under EU sanctions as a member of President Vladimir Putin's "inner circle" in mid-March. At the same time, the son of the first deputy head of the presidential administration, Sergei Kiriyenko, the general DIRECTOR of VK, Vladimir Kiriyenko, was included in the sanctions list.

The press service of VK then clarified that the inclusion of the CEO in the EU sanctions list "will not affect the operational and financial activities of VK, as well as interaction with partners."

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RUSSIA has been conducting a military operation in Ukraine since February 24. Putin called its main goals "demilitarization and denazification" of the neighboring state.

The Baltic countries, including Latvia, have since the beginning of the conflict supported the territorial integrity of Ukraine and joined the EU sanctions. The Latvian authorities also canceled the registration of the Yandex.Taxi service and blocked the Yandex Go application from March 23. On April 21, the Latvian Seimas approved a law on the deprivation of citizenship for supporting the operation in Ukraine.