Today, the Saeima Human Rights Commission, considering amendments to the Law on Public Media that arose in response to the Constitutional Court's verdict, supported the strictest option, which means that the Russian language will completely disappear from public media. It can only be used in emergencies. Moreover, the closure of the Russian version of the public media portal must occur by January 1st. The need for an even stricter version of the law than recommended by the Constitutional Court was justified by the Minister of Culture, Nauris Puntulis, at the commission meeting: "Content still exists, and we have no grounds for continuing to have content in Russian in an independent European nation-state. Especially in wartime conditions now. What does reduction mean? It must disappear altogether, and that's it," said Puntulis, and most commission members supported him.