The editor-in-chief of the NewsBalt portal, Andrei Vypolzov, was detained on the Latvian border, where he flew out of Kaliningrad, and was not allowed into the country. According to him, he arrived there at the invitation of friends, and the elections to be held in the Baltic Republic on October 6 "became just an addition". About this journalist himself told RIA "News". "I was shown a letter from your Minister of the Interior, Richard Kozlovskis, from 2017, but I have been persona non grata since June 2014. I found out about it today. Airport staff were very polite, even sympathetic. Said that the ban expires in 2019, then come. But I do not really want to, "- said Vypolzov. From Latvia he is deported to Russia. Earlier, political and social activist Vladimir Linderman wrote on his Facebook page on the journalist’s detention: "This morning, the Russian journalist Andrei Vypolzov was not allowed into Latvia, he was detained at the Riga airport. Andrew was going to cover the elections to the Sejm..

He lives in Kaliningrad, works in NewsBalt, his last great publication about Latvia, which I saw, was in "Top Secret". Now 9. 30, he is still in Riga, is being prepared for deportation ". Back in May, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that Latvia and Lithuania are fighting with the Russian media, increasingly turning the screws in opposition to the alleged Kremlin propaganda.. In her opinion, in this way Riga and Vilnius endanger the Russian-speaking audience, sticking to the course of infringement of the rights of Russian mass media..