MOSCOW, July 5./TASS/. Russian Permanent Representative to the OSCE Alexander Lukashevich expressed on Thursday outrage over the detention in Riga of the chief editor of Sputnik Latvia news portal and urged the OSCE reaction.

"We are outraged by detention in Riga of the Sputnik-LVRUS Chief Editor Rozencov. We call upon the authorities of Latvia to abide by its international commitments on Media Freedom as well as on OSCE-RFom (Representative on Freedom of the Media) to react publicly to this situation," the Russian Mission tweeted on Thursday citing Lukashevich.

The Russian Foreign Ministry will monitor the situation with the detention of the Sputnik Latvia chief-editor in Riga, and a corresponding address to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) will follow, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said at Thursday’s briefing.

Rozencov was detained by Riga police upon arrival from Moscow "for a conversation," which lasted 12 hours in total, she said. "We’d like to point out that the conversation lasted for more than 10 hours. We are keeping in contact with the journalist, and we will monitor this situation and transfer all the data to the OSCE," Zakharova noted.