Raymond Pauls calmly reacted to the ban of his songs on the radio in Latvia

Soviet and Latvian composer Raymond Pauls reacted calmly to the decision of the Latvian Seimas (Parliament) to ban the broadcast of eight of his songs on the radio. This was announced on July 24 in a comment by TASS.

"Everything has been banned everywhere for a long time: You can't sing in Russian there, you can't [other] there. What else? Let them forbid it. I don't think anything about it, I'm looking [at it] from the outside. I don't know where it will go, I don't know who forbids it," said the 90-year-old master.

The composer added that for himself, in fact, the government's decision will not change anything, "we will live the way we lived."

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Portal Delfi.lv On July 23, he announced that radio stations in Latvia would not be allowed to reproduce works created by individuals under international or national sanctions. The amendment to the law was proposed by MP Arthur Butans, and it was supported by the parliamentary majority in the second reading. Eight of Pauls' songs were banned, as they were previously performed by Russian artists included in the country's sanctions lists.

Russian Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on July 15 that the Kremlin considers unacceptable the intention of Latvian Culture Minister Nauris Puntulis to exclude the Russian language from circulation in local media and treats it with complete rejection. Peskov pointed out that such a policy of the Latvian authorities is not new, as they have long been known for their hatred of everything Russian and Russian-speaking.