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Refuge in Riga
Text Juri Rescheto, DW Bureau Chief, Riga
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Following the forced suspension of DW operations in Russia, DW has temporarily relocated its Moscow news bureau to Riga in Latvia. The bureau will be a hub for DW’s formerly Moscow-based staff who will provide coverage from there. A team of correspondents and producers will be working from Riga to produce journalistic content for DW’s television and online channels to serve the needs of DW’s Russian-speaking audiences as well as other DW foreignlanguage services.
Juri Rescheto, DW’s Moscow Bureau Chief, said: “DW is committed to providing a credible, uncensored alternative to Russian media for its Russian-speaking audience. Currently, there is particular focus on giving viewers and users the full scope of Russia’s war on Ukraine. From Riga we will also cover the Baltic and Scandinavian countries.”
On February 3, Russian authorities closed DW’s Russian operations and revoked the press credentials of DW’s Moscow staff and on March 4 they restricted access to DW websites.
