Latvian director Alvis Hermanis accused opposition television channel Dozhd* of “Russian chauvinism”. The reason for the accusations was an interview with Riga mayor Mārtiņš Stakis on a TV channel filmed by the host of the “Rain” program Ekaterina Kotrikadze – Hermanis did not like his methods, but did not specify exactly what. .

– the director wrote on Facebook ** (quote from DOS). He demanded that Dozhd be banned from working in Latvia:

There was a discussion in the comments to this post. Therefore, journalist Roman Super, who openly condemned the military special operation, advised the director not to interfere in his own business:

Apparently, under Russian artists, Roman Super meant Chulpan Khamatova, who, after the start of the special operation, immigrated to Latvia and was invited to the troupe of the New Riga Theater headed by Alvis Hermanis. In June, the premiere of Khamatova’s one-man show Post Scriptum directed by Hermanis took place.

The Dozhd TV channel was recognized as a foreign agent by the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation and stopped its work in Russia shortly after the start of the Russian Federation’s military special operation in Ukraine. Later it became known that Dozhd plans to continue the broadcast and prepares new projects. Now the channel has studios in Riga, Amsterdam, Tbilisi and Paris.

* “Rain” is recognized by the Ministry of Justice as a foreign agent.
** Facebook is owned by Meta, a well-known company. In Russia extremist organization