in more than latvia the x. parties and was declared an enemy and spent almost two years behind bars for taking part in the killing of local volunteers they were helping the germans. kannan of was acting on of the situation taken by parties and tribunals in one nine hundred forty three. when radical nationalists came to power after the regime change and their lackeys started a massive campaign against anti-fascists riegel who had fought in the entire hitler coalition they were all to review the old can of the edition in order to whitewash naziism and fascism really for she is a. ivers garder is leader of a political organization called the national front of latvia the front publishes a newspaper founded by him. better weekends and during public holidays volunteers hand out free copies to anyone willing to read the paper. its name contains three d's they stand for de occupation the colonized station and the russification. for a long time talk to god are taught ethics at the academy of culture some of his former s

now that loses latvia's president duggan off is a member of latvia's anti fascist committee. who is most of us are going to get the book i can't bear to see the revival naziism unluckier says i can see it with the naked eye. upsets me most of all is that so-called democratic europe closes its eyes to the revival not as a group as ago it was a. march sixteenth one thousand nine hundred forty three during the second world war the latvian legion was formed. thousands of volunteers in the country signed up to fight for the nazis. off to independence every year on the state legion veterans have been officially committees to hold a parade in central riga. in two thousand and five big to durgan off and several other anti fascists clad in prison right stood in the way of marching legionaries. the police dispersed all the anti-fascists and let the s.s. veterans put the flowers at the freedom monument. for the. we believe in a free country fascists and their followers have no right to bring flowers to a symbol of the state if the state doesn't see itself as a nationalist but. all floor

present day latvia and nazi germany. during the second of the second. they must go. there was a diversion for them of the leave rather than the bottom of. things they would like as i as nationals to. be the languages of the things they had. the things about hands and rights and that if you're not a citizen. of six of the jobs and the combination of things where you are discriminated against because your impure. your reality seems the mother is latvian but his father is russian he has a perfect command of both languages. he received an excellent education both as an engineer and as a journalist his son misha eli is a school people. papa tell me what the sentence means. is often at a loss when he tries to figure out his math textbook it's written in latvian. the internet translator says it means headline well yes that's a possibility. a country schools were formed in the middle of the past decade. russian textbooks were hastily replaced with latvian ones. now more than half of the subjects in russian language schools are s

it's now been twenty years since latvia jeev sovereignty. but still independence day its most celebrated holiday and the freedom monument its main national icon aliant to hoffer of the country's population.

that's announcer i think since latvia is a member of nato since life is a member of european union i would say we haven't any fear from nobody well of course we have to. have fears from economic challenges from new international threats like international terrorism but well that's a challenge. facing any any country including like you you're mentioning the economic challenges was well as a member of nato ally that is for as i understand spence spent quite a considerable sum on defense well this reset let's call it in russia latin relations that we are seeing today do you think it may convince the let me leadership to scrap some costly defense programs i wouldn't link link reset policy and our defense spending have been cut quite substantially in the last two years. due to economic constraints. but we are still. lacking to have two percent military or defense expenditures of g.d.p. so we are spending less and that's a commitment of nato states so i think this is not claimed to. have a reset is not linked to the level of military expenditures in latvia and we have to holler our. commit

aah. riga capital city of the republic of latvia. the country gained independence on march the 16th. now, thousands of people have gathered in the city center near the free to monument ever since. and how does the democratic olympia celebrate? every spring? the country has now been a member of both the european union and nato for several years. the nell very few surviving legionnaires who served in latvian buffet s s divisions, march solemnly under national flags and making their way to the country's main monument. there accompanied by a large crowd of loyal supporters and admirers to the strains of nazi style marches, and songs in number of officials and individuals lay memorial weeks at the base of the monument. as they joined the commemoration of remembrance day. it's a day when respect to paid to fallen and surviving volunteers for hitler's ass. there was a time when this was even considered a national holiday soon. austin was all po, dosage of thought, all god to jane, both full of korean, the death. but rich and good, then 5 to

latvia and russia this is an issue between latvia and poland this is an issue of russia's own history and i think that is the same show to bring all knowledge about. tragic complex difficult issues of twentieth century and we have to start it. i think a good start is a hope of the victory we shouldn't try to reach immediately some finish but we have to stop and what's essential we have to start both and we have to start to cover this first step was done today i hope very much it will be successful you're absolutely both moscow and riga have already labeled this visit as successful well as far as i know you are yuruk coming to minister latin economist or he was coming to moscow in order to try to convince gazprom to cut the gas prices for latvia was this attempt successful. well. i should say that was no not the only issue of of for. minister of economy and a number of ministers who. came with the president to moscow we have signed a number of four agreements by a bilateral agreements. i should mention first and foremost the agreement in some double taxation agreement on our cooperatio

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the 16th was chosen in latvia. ah, it was on that day in 1944. when the 15th and 19th latvian volunteer as as divisions started to fight against red army units on the east and front a boy b roacher, there are some of the for my mom of like a 30 some me a lot of the me get on the neo nazis never failed to mention however, that even though that fans fought as part of the german s s, they weren't shedding blood for hitler. but for a future pre latvia, one with no jews or communist finney west guys, this love to see where you and your bill is good showing that you reported never lisa sambo, easily buckle liberally, prove it. and the heroic latvian legion is had nothing to do with nazi germany's crimes against humanity or y'all can even yet on the phone bill for you yet. so in reality, they gave their lives, not for latvia, but to save civilized europe from the savage and bloody hordes of bolsheviks. of you that's contested. so where does the truth lie? as the 70th anniversary of those tragic events draws near, it's a good time to get to the bottom of

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as a result, latvia has seen a rapid growth in neo nazi sentiment. you talks lushly whip, those could go to legal polish, so make a socialist. she could throw chicago to do it on us without. it's a pity, beside to store to hunter thomas lee stood up the door. we met awaiting a few minutes to rush back and they keep up with you. but if you could terribly to kiss them if you will open up it. so like boucher so so. so my son is struggling. this film shows a fair drive torchlight procession. and this is video of the torchlight procession organized by the all for lot fear, party in 2000 and both feature the same aesthetic, some slogans. and the same conviction. to build a racially pure laughing with awe with by the middle of the 19th century. practically the whole of india had been under the rule of the british empire alone feel authorities and impose that heavy death bringing the people into poverty and were exporting natural resources. and moreover, these authorities absolutely had no consideration for the traditions of the local population, treating th

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they don't have those who volunteered even those guilty of ethnic cleansing for a latvia and latvia every day. just a lot of people starting to plan, i came to come right to me. features. kimberly gonna remind you, possibly it's not a talk, isn't you also staunch does all know you leave with did it, but he, roby i peaceful. so an opportunity presented itself to turn a murderer like that a bit sucrose into a national hero, making it possible for the latvian republics highest leadership to worship the graves of collaborators at a national cemetery. stand up and feel to vote, my vice and ss grew up and filled out rudolph mankowski. only one problem remained how to remove the stigma or the criminal organization from the latvian buffet. s legion itself laughing as ruling nationalist elite managed to solve the problem by proposing the thesis that there was no difference between the genocidal nazis and the communist to save the world from the brown plague. ah, that idea became the foundation for official latvian ideology. those within the country and beyond. ah, madame lucito, maria. good. i was

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well, miranda casem, he's himself is citizen of latvia. he also a headed editor in chief of fer sputnik latvia. and he had worked as the editor in chief of student, gladly for years now he himself had earlier spoken about feeling persecuted, politically persecuted by authorities in latvia, which are some of those rapidly, russo phobic, and to russian. they had previous, you know, in 2016 they had blocked spook, our online, or what followed after 2016 was a systematic system of persecution against the workers and the organization itself . for example, we, we had a lateral authorities harassing work, so threatening them with jail, with the prosecution if they continued to work for for scrutiny. they threatened them, as i said with jail time, but also told them that if they continued even to work for the organization, even from russia, that they could, could face consequences back who and this is, this is years ago. this is years before the courage, ukrainian conflict. then we had special services talking to the various people who worked for

the atmosphere in latvia for a russian speaking person is very difficult. i move it on to the news now is really security forces have class with mornings at the funeral of an al jazeera journalist in palestine, sharyn abu r claire was killed on wednesday, while reporting in the west bank. ah, this what did shows police confronting those attending the funeral as they tried to move the caskets on foot and some clay? what exactly caused the unrest in the coffin was later delivered to church by car. thousands of palestinians took part in mourning for the journalists who lost her life amid a recent wave of tension is how events unfolded. ah, ah, noticed a quick warning you may find some of the following images disturbing. this footage shows the moments after the al jazeera journalist was killed during his railey army rate in the town of jenin postilion palestinian authorities and the tv channel itself, blame israeli soldiers for the gentlest death. israel said both soldiers, unpolished, any militants were firing at the time, and called for a joint investigation

thousands of people in latvia have so-called alien passports even though they've never lived anywhere else the only way for them to get equal rights with full citizens is a naturalization test which is actually intended for immigrants artie's paul scott investigates you guys when you mean it but at the moment non-citizens have limited rights we can't vote can't occupy government positions or be policeman or lawyers in total there are ninety differences in november alexander invited un secretary-general ban ki moon to latvia for a congress on the issue the invite was politely declined. and you're going to have any of them there are around three hundred thousand of us and i'm one of them here's my passport it's an alien passport. when the soviet union collapsed latvia only gave full citizenship to people and their descendants who had lived in the country prior to nine hundred forty when it became a soviet republic that was around fifty two percent of the population everyone else was classed as a non-citizen today one in seven people are considered alien canady is one of those affected h

latvia and plenty more of the top headlines from the week coming up on r.t. international in just a few minutes. millions around the globe struggle with hunger each good. what if someone offers a lifetime food supply no charge. against g.m.o. and we think that's. going to be. pretty. there is no. evidence that there is any problem with genetic engineering when you make a deal. or is free cheese oh crap i don't believe that there. are three. profit. these golden rice. we have corruption like we've never had in this country you can say that this is a great economy right now it's a great economy if you're rich and poor we're trying to get the wall to wall street cranked up again if you've got all your money in stocks it's beginning to show a little life it's not if you're an average person in this country i would i have to tend to agree with doug i mean i see a lot of public relations here i don't see a lot of really good policy for the average person i just like to take up on an earlier point that doug made though which i also thought was quite important and si

in the territory such programs have no place in latvia or elsewhere in the e.u. personally i've looked all over fairbairns watched r.t. arabic with subtitles tried r.t. spanish i even checked behind attorneys and know nothing just cables the very evidence that latvia has the literally made up then didn't try very hard perhaps it was just before the end of the working day that everyone iching to go home see there's a number of news agencies and russia hauled but i see a civil order which translates to english as russian today and this organization is led by a fellow who's on european sanctions list this organization by the way has nothing to do with r t that's been our name for more than a decade we're r t and they're right here seaboard even our names are in different languages but the latvian special agent or official is other than easily scared apparently a lazy thing given that conciliar over is subject to sanctions throughout the u. the national electronic media council will inform media regulators in other e.u. countries of the decision taken and considers t