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The Dutch Media Authority issued a five-year broadcasting permit for the Russian independent television station TV Rain after its licence had been cancelled in Latvia, according to a statement on the regulator’s website.

The permit, dated 22 December, will “provide a commercial television broadcasting service as a commercial media institution,” the regulator said. It was not immediately clear when the statement was published.