RIGA, 23 Feb Latvian Minister of Education and Science Anita Muižniece, whose department also oversees sports, called on the leadership of the Dynamo Riga hockey club to stop participating in the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). «I hope that we will finally stop talking about sports (yes, and about music), which supposedly is not related to politics … Yes, I especially want to highlight Dynamo Riga and the fact that this “story” about participation in the Russian Open Championship must be stopped completely,” the minister wrote on her twitter profile. Dynamo Riga has been playing in the KHL since founding league in 2008.
