well, it doesn't stop. latvian authorities yes, at the same time, here you are talking, yes, about the people who liberated latvia, but now after all, they are called occupiers in the official latvian historiography, the museum of the occupation of the famous riga works, where they offer a completely frankly alternative version of history and, in general, the rhetoric of official riga in recent years . it is, in general, unambiguously rhetoric. this sounds today and from the pages of news publications. here in particular is the delphic portal, which reports the continuation of the dismantling hmm, a monument in riga today says that the statue of a woman in nick brackets has been demolished. and this is the very motherland to assume that, but the fact that riga is demolishing the motherland is not known to riga journalists, who nevertheless have a common past , it is difficult to rename it into gigika, but, apparently, into some such symbol of victory . this is also a way to lower the degree somewhat, and this characterizes to a very large extent the rhetoric with which they are now trying, who are now trying to

use the official authorities of latvia under how many i understand that a law was passed that removes all soviet monuments from protection, and, accordingly, well, it can be assumed that similar monuments are similar to those in neighboring estonia. let the smaller ones, but still preserved in the country, will also be demolished. do i understand correctly, legislation was adopted in the spring of this year, which provides for the demolition of soviet monuments of any memorials that are dedicated to the great patriotic war, which is located outside the locations of military graves and this work. they have already actively started these monuments, these memorial signs are being demolished, being destroyed by all available means, and unfortunately, the comments of local and central authorities sound like this will be good material for construction. roads from these monuments from these memorials. we

will make good gravel, which will be used for construction, emphasizing once again, thereby, that this is being done in the most offensive form for our country. i understand correctly, this, by the way, was one of my questions. eh, what will happen to monuments, including elements of the monument to the liberator of riga what will happen to this material as a building material, as the official riga expresses today, that is, it is trying to make gravel for roads, they are not its building material. again, construction waste. this is how it will look approximately from the motherland, obviously, latvia is planning, and you need to understand to open your way to a bright european future, judging at least, because the european is happening in latvia so, how do they understand, at the same time a monument? of course there are protectors. of course, there are russian-speaking residents of latvia. of course, there are those who simply do not want to

forget their history and understand that without the past there is no future of well-known social activity. vladimir linderman. in particular, he spoke out in support of the monument, but his fate is very indicative, because he has been under arrest for a month a and in general, it is obvious that this is this arrest. in general, all these persecutions are connected exclusively with his civil position, and i understand that other defenders of this monument of other monuments. in general, they are also under the threat of persecution. introduced in this state, which still calls itself a democratic latvian republic of full thought. you must think to speak and do only what is said from the podium of the diet. what do they tell you from the screens of latvian television? any alternative point of view, any attempt to

discuss is severely suppressed by linderman exactly for this and, uh, sits out. eh, not the first time, but in riga prison. yesterday, another trial took place. it was considered, and their request for a request from the defense to change his preventive measure, but he was left in custody, they accuse him of inciting ethnic hatred in justifying russian aggression in justifying genocide and the like. this is what he definitely did not do. there is another very frightening news today, the president of latvia, slevits, said that members of the russian community who are not loyal to the country should be isolated. here is a democratic republic believes that it is possible to do this not loyal to their country, a member of the russian community - who is this? after all, it is possible that these are both citizens of latvia and those

people who quite legally had a residence permit to be in the country now against the background of the cessation of issuing visas and endless threats to revise those permits to stay in the country that have already been issued. well, in general, it actually not only already sounds, but also looks like real fascism of the 21st century. according to this with this. what they say today the latvian authorities, in fact, nationalists , say that such european values ​​as freedom of speech, freedom of thought, tolerance have not been recognized here for a long time, this is especially true of the russian-speaking, as they say, minorities, although the proportion of the russian-speaking population. in latvia, it is almost 37% that any alternative opinion entails persecution, the social environment is very

carefully controlled by people, in fact. cases are faced with a choice either to remain silent or go to jail. this is how it is today the political regime of the republic of latvia looks like. at the same time, as i understand it, those people who, among other things, go out to defend the monument now or speak out about it. in social networks, people can also be persecuted, including criminally. that's what's important, we remember this story, yes, in may, when a young man unfurled the russian tricolor at the monument to the liberators of latvia, which had not yet been demolished, and in general, he immediately received for it. so it is. yes, he did not say a single word in support of the actions of the armed forces, he simply revealed the russian tricolor. and he said that he came here to bow to the memory of the dead red army soldiers for this he served 2 months in the local riga prison. he is currently under bail. the same punishments threaten. i once again emphasized to everyone who would

somehow express their own point of view, which differs from the point of view of the official authorities. these people are persecuted in the most cruel way, they are called, and the security service conducts preventive conversations with them. if, as the local authorities believe, they do not help, then either administrative or criminal cases are initiated. this work is carried out everywhere very carefully and very hard. by the way, we have already started issuing russian visas to those citizens who were detained these days at the monument to the liberators. in order for them to freely leave the territory of latvia and find asylum in the russian federation, if you need a way out, you can give a little more detail, are there many such people who have already applied for a russian visa, well, or i’ll get it for some reason, i won’t name the exact figure, there are such people and we promptly we carry out such work, it is clear that any form of

dissent is any form of discontent. today, latvia is being severely suppressed, but it is obvious that people can be dissatisfied not only with the openly nationalist, already fascist policy of the country. but after all, the energy crisis cannot but affect the social mood, because , well, in general, it is no secret that the baltic economies are not the strongest economies of the economy in many respects, dependent in a situation where energy prices simply soar heaven is just such small european economies. well, as they want to call themselves european, they suffer first and foremost. tell me how the situation is from this point of view? the economic situation in latvia is very difficult. last month inflation was 21.5%. the country lacks energy resources. today it is very expensive. as you well know. at the same time, the latvian government

set itself the task of breaking. whatever all economic relations with our country from january 1 next year to latvia stops the purchase of russian gas by the economic operator. latvia has been instructed to stop all operations with the russian federation. apparently, it will be taken in the next one. in a short period of time, the decision not to issue visas to russians for entry into latvia is broken , of course, all possible ties with our country. this affects the growth of consumer prices, of course, this affects the growth of energy prices. moreover, latvia is experiencing a shortage of latvia's energy deficit. in particular for electricity is approximately 30%, this is what they have to buy annually from abroad. prices today on the electricity exchange. so

high that, well, there are simply not enough values ​​in which to measure them, of course, all this will affect the well-being of the population of latvia . thank you very much. mikhail valentin who were with us today and continue to monitor the situation around the monument, which needs to be completely dismantled and completely launched, as we found out from ours conversation on the road. gravel and, of course, the situation in latvia in general, because there is a feeling that our relations are reaching a dead end. and apparently. riga is only interested in not getting out of this impasse. thank you very much. no less disturbing news comes from cyprus. the cypriot police, meanwhile, released a ukrainian terrorist who attacked russian activists with a knife during the celebration of the russian flag day. this is me quoting the telegram channel of the head of the cooperation roses yevgeny primakov as he informs the court is scheduled for september 19 before this date

ukrainian terrorist. this quote at large can do anything to plan new attacks to escape from justice, and so on , it is obvious that the cypriot authorities consider this incident as an everyday one, well , perhaps we cannot recognize it as such, common sense about the situation about this and in principle, we will talk about the relations between our states with the russian ambassador to the republic of cyprus, stanislav osadchiy. stanislav yuryevich is in touch with us. he is here, can you hear me? yes of course, please tell me if you know him, actually about this decision to release. well, let's call it a ukrainian activist who attacked people, with a tricolor on the day of the celebration of the russian flag. yes, of course we know. we are following the development of events, it really happened on august 22. e. here is some of our activists who were going to conduct a motor rally through the celebrations of the day of the

state flag of russia, a woman approached them with a knife. tried to attack another woman, our activist, whom she knew a little from all sorts of bad words. uh, in general, with a knife in her hands, she came close to her. on the spot , the police were present, who detained the violator, and we are now very tight. we follow how the investigation is being carried out. the citizen of ukraine was in a state of alcohol. intoxication according to local uh authorities. this somehow mitigates her condition, if we have a punishment that aggravates such a state, then here it softens, but here, on the other hand, carrying a knife outside the living quarters. this is a gross criminal offence. a criminal case has been initiated against her. here in fact carrying a knife assault being under the influence of

alcohol in a public place. violation of public order and the use of weapons for the purpose of committing an act of intimidation. how did you say it right? e. primakov was actually appointed on september 19th. we have already repeatedly visited the local police, we talked to them and insisted that it was an attempt to kill, and not just intimidation, as they believe we were told in response that the police would investigate further. c will examine the additional circumstances of the case. yes, unfortunately, they were detained and released on bail, but the police believe that she will not be able to escape, since both the ports and the airport have been warned. she's in a snot. well, this is the case if they strictly monitor and enforce compliance. actually, this very stop list and it’s really curious that

in particular the cooperation department insisted and asked to initiate a criminal case under the article specifically terrorism, of course, yevgeny primakov does not accidentally use this word ukrainian terrorist and it’s curious that in this case it’s not just not sober. let's say, honestly, to a woman who somehow introduced herself to violence and threatened others, but we are talking about how, at least, the victim believes that the reason for this very attack was a civil position. here is lyudmila chuikova, i will quote her this one, actually , just, but there is, as i understand it, one of, as it were, or yes, russian activists, i mean pro-russian, i never thought that someone could come to me like that with with such a blade and try to kill me for my opinion. we never say anything bad. we don't go to them. shares, and they come to ours and yell. and if i understand correctly, these words are a situation. well, let's say this, a conflict situation like this

is repeated, not for the first time, but nevertheless, as i understand it, the cypriot police are quite loyal to such manifestations of ukrainian. well, let's just say nationalism. the police are trying to keep such a neutral stance. unfortunately, this is not the first case in cyprus when russian citizens become the object of physical aggression by representatives of the ukrainian diaspora. for example, in march of the whole year, russian-speakers, a russian-speaking resident of limassolada, were hit in the head just because she spoke russian on the phone at that time, threats against russians have become more frequent recently, but in this situation, when a woman received a blow to the head only because she spoke russian. what was the punishment for the person who delivered the blow? unfortunately, she did not contact the police about

this. although we asked her to do it. she was apparently frightened and did not turn to the police. there have been similar incidents, there have been more, well, recently they have become more frequent. we are also receiving threats against embassy employees, for example, on the day of the tragic death of daria dugin of the embassy. uh, one person called, here, calling in bad english . as you understand, you said next tonight at 5 o'clock in a characteristic accent. we have a large rally in front of the embassy. ukrainian diaspora and, according to their statements, they intend to douse the embassy building with paint and to throw stones at all these reasons, we appeal to the government, the government and the police , we hope that the police will not allow such a development of events even today. the police willingly, in general,

listens to you, when you talk about the threats that come to you, and the threats are completely outright. let's just say. the police listen to us every time and today we have been to the police several times. just an hour ago we returned from the police headquarters. well, every time we are received, we are actively listened to attentively they listen and say that all necessary measures will be taken, at least during the last rally, which was brought by our activists near the embassy on the occasion of the death of children in the donbass, a large ukrainian diaspora gathered in front of the embassy. here, the representatives of the ukrainian and the police clearly divided our ukrainian activists, the line was such that the ukrainians could not approach us, the police are trying to do something, but if the political aspect is every time it is in business. of course, the police

are also under pressure and we understand direction please tell us how big the ukrainian diaspora is. now in cyprus and how big the russian one is. by the way, according to our calculations, of course, this calculation is relative, because no one registers. right now the embassy is super soviet times, but according to our uh estimates , the russian diaspora t-40 up to 50,000 people is ukrainian, about 10,000, but recently ukrainian. uh, the diaspora is growing because of our operation in ukraine, and not the best representatives fly here. and i have one last question. i have a lot of time left with you and me against the backdrop of already talking about tightening the visa regime and , possibly, a general ban on the issuance of schengen visas to russians and, as a result, tightening general travel abroad, which may become a visit to europe can become a privilege, and not a right, if memory serves me right, the head of estonia

said last week against this background. are there any representatives of the russian diaspora who would like to return to russia, given the current situation in cyprus, you know, i these data are not available, but as far as the cypriot side is concerned, i can say that the ministry of foreign affairs has already spoken out against doing so. as you know, a full call for extradition to russian citizens in the appropriate position. she ranked within the european union for the cypriots. this is a very important aspect. you imagine that every year about 800 russian citizens arrive in cyprus, and they brought with them large financial reserves that they spent in cyprus and this brought a lot. ah, income. there hope that cypriots cypriots are very understand. they are very sorry that they were forced under pressure from the european union to close the

airspace. what for our e citizens and bear big big losses to you big stanislav filirovich. thanks stanislav osachiy was in touch with us and russian ambassador bliki cyprus, which, as we see today, is forced to choose between the economy and, alas, not its own politics, like many other countries are preparing the sovereignty of which, alas , has come into question. thank you for your attention. take measures to extinguish the fire and protect people discussed the situation with forest fires at a meeting of the president. what orders did vladimir putin give after another shelling of donetsk by ukrainian troops in the galaxy shopping center ? on the agenda of the un security council at a meeting of the organization, the permanent representative of our country presented evidence of shelling for