well, my guest today is latvia's prime minister, kristjanis karins. just how vulnerable is latvia?rime minister kristjanis karins, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. vladimir putin's invasion of ukraine happened six months ago. right now, here in latvia, has that war raised the level of fear to new heights? what the war has done has raised the level of mobilisation. so the first effect was the mobilisation from the grassroots, people rallying to the support of ukraine citizens, ordinary people coming together, asking, "what can we do to help ukraine?" and we've had a mass outpouring of... we have communities making camouflage nets, we have people providing medications, companies donating all sorts of vehicles, donating all sorts of humanitarian aid, blankets, you name it, that has been going on. people donating cash — and not very wealthy people, ordinary people. so we've had a massive mobilisation of society, because we here in latvia very well understand that the ukrainians are, in a sense, fighting our war. they are fighting against russian imperialism. right now, it happens to be

no russians to enter latvia?and we only issue on an exceptional basis, i think what you call humanitarian visas. there are some who have received that permit, but the general rule is no visas. the german chancellor scholz says that's a fundamental mistake. he says, "this is not a war on the russian people. it is putin's war. it is important for us to understand there are a lot of people fleeing from russia because they fundamentally disagree with the russian regime." you really want to lock them out of getting a safe haven in latvia? once again, it's important to distinguish a tourist visa from a humanitarian visa. we are accepting, on an exceptional basis, russian citizens who are indeed fleeing the putin regime. we have, in latvia, we're actually hosting many news services, russian edition, including the bbc�*s, and many others — the former independent russian media, which is banned in moscow, is alive in latvia and reporting back into russia. so, of course, you always find a way to let that which would be term

once again i want to emphasize that latvia is clearly aware of who we are dealing with and latvia understands that a full set of restrictive measures is needed in addition to military aid, which latvia receives one of the largest aids from latvia countries that have a certain budget, of course, other large countries help uh, actually more, but if you take the budget , the number of population, etc., then latvia, estonia and other baltic countries, they are the leaders of our aid to us, but recently latvia gave us six uh artillery installations and four helicopters, we understand that just to remind mr. oleksandr, latvia is not just for us, it really helps us on a large scale according to its gdp, for example . whining, no matter how it sounds, about the fact that we ourselves are exposing our defense capabilities in order to help ukraine , unfortunately, other countries also sometimes use their rhetoric, oleksandr i would like to clarify in a few more moments, if we understand the situation with tourist visas, then actually in latvia there are principles according to which temporary residence

moreover, latvia is experiencing a shortage of latvia's energy deficit.icular 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

but latvia at first, too, pulling the valve turned out, as a result, not so scrupulous, latvia this week e, purchases of russian gas, and from gazprom, despite the fact that russia, from this point of view of the state, is a sponsor of terrorists. that is, she herself finances the state of the sponsor of terrorism. and if it is so principled, ah, and so valuable, then i think russia should help, uh, latvia with its values ​​with its principles a and cut it off from the gas. 7 latvia goes into anti-russian hysteria. they also called on the european union to stop issuing tourist visas to russians and restrict entry into the eu, and brussels is immediately considering such a measure in the next package of sanctions against our country. well , estonia decided not to wait at all. there, visa restrictions come into force in a week from august 18, i quote the possibility for russians to visit estonia and the rest of europe through estonia does not correspond to the spirit of the imposed sanctions about this said the head of the ministry of foreign affairs of the republic, the russians will also

russian-speaking citizens and neo-citizens of latvia who live there in latvia when we make these decisionse gates of hell just opened, and the regime that became the regime of terrorism, and in reality the fascist regime, they kill ukrainian children, mothers, sons, and it is necessary to stop this if it is not stopped, then this spread will not stop. we were the first to symbolically support uh, i am a quick act, we raised the reshki flag at home already on february 14th - it was the day after well, to raise the plugin, the solution is about russia is recognized as a country of terrorism that supports terrorism and other solutions. we simply do this because we understand that it is logical. uh, at every action that appears, but well, i understand that a very large majority, yes, they clearly understand, uh, who attacked whom, that is, russia, ukraine, what they are saying there, and what our steps are logical, and it's understandable, edward, thank you very much for the work you do, thank you for everything, your country, and especially for the support of the ukrainians in riga, too, now

well, this does not stop the authorities of latvia.the same time, you are talking about the people who liberated latvia, but now. after all, in the official latvian historiography they are called occupiers . museum of occupation, famous in riga works, where they offer a completely direct 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. in particular, the delphic portal, which reports on the continuation of the dismantling of the hmm monument in riga, today says that the statue of a woman in brackets nickname 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's hard to rename it wild. well, apparently in some such symbol of victory. this is a way to lower the degrees somewhat, too. and this one to a very large extent characterizes the rhetoric with w

but latvia first, too, pulling the valve.the end, not so scrupulous, latvia this week resumed, uh, purchases of russian gas, and from gazprom, despite the fact that russia of the soviets from the point of view of the state is a sponsor of terrorism. that is, she herself finances the state sponsor of terrorism. and if it is so principled, ah, and so valuable, then i think russia should help, uh, latvia with its values, with its a principles, and cut it off from the gas. everyone in latvia goes into anti-russian hysteria. they also called on the european union to stop issuing tourist visas to russians and restrict entry into the eu, and brussels is immediately considering such a measure in the next package of sanctions against our country, but estonia decided not to wait at all. there visa restrictions come into force in a week from august 18, i quote the opportunity for russians to visit estonia and the rest of europe through estonia does not correspond to the spirit of the imposed sanctions, the head of the ministry of foreig

latvia may limit the use of the russian language at work and in public places that the authorities are justice countries janis borns. he also did not rule out that the russian language will also be excluded from telephone and bank messages; we note that in latvia the russian language is the second most common language in the country for a third of the inhabitants, this language is native. in the south-east of moscow, several people were poisoned by carbon monoxide, citing a source in law enforcement agencies, the tass agency reported earlier that three residents of the house on 40 let oktyabrya street became ill, who came to the call. doctors also felt unwell from the entrance evacuated all the tenants of the premises ventilated. the german authorities have accused poland of poisoning the oder river, according to the minister of the environment. in the federal state of brandenburg, we are talking about a large-scale environmental disaster. the situation is exacerbated by the strong blaming of european rivers , analysts write that this could further complicate the energy and food crises

will have to leave latvia.russian citizens who have an estonian schengen visa will be closed. entry into the country. details will follow very much. russian air defense forces prevented a catastrophe at the zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant this night and in the morning it was again attacked by ukrainian militants from the air. all of their attack drones and missiles shot down our military , according to the authorities. energodar kiev was apparently aiming at a storage facility for spent nuclear fuel and their reactor cooling system at station six zaporozhye npp is the largest in europe and in which case the scale of the disaster could be much greater than after chernobyl, several countries and tens of millions of people will be in the radiation damage zone, today's attack is not the first on august 7, the nationalists hit on stations from hurricane systems, fragments of shells, then fell just hundreds of meters from the operating reactor, which is how non-nuclear terrorism was called the actions of ukraine in

latvia latvia yes, now there is a lot of latvian population, because both jobs and everything that isose enterprises that live off trade and economic ties with russia, they do not exist to close it completely with us. no, this no this problem will not arise because of this less. to help the russians there, we will sort out the russians. like it's through the curtain. there we already lost a hole in the baltic states in the late nineties. yes, and in including because the passivity that was in relation to the russian-speaking population is politics. here it was carried out. it's already. in general, they started this policy with their colleagues. yes, the ministry of foreign affairs at one time was engaged in something else. i have been to latvia many times. and it was a rescue. here the question is different, what a-a will affect the baltic states. now we practically can’t, as far as this product is concerned, so i want to say that it is coming. yes, there is a small part of the fish products. yes, sprats and so on goes, again in border region of russia dairy products and all. that's

and the president of latvia went even further and called for an audit of visas and residence permitssly issued to russians. what else are some european countries willing to do to limit nikolai sokolov will tell the citizens of russia the president of latvia decided to join the issue of discussing visas and go even further, touching not only on the topic of schengen for russians, but also proposes to cancel residence permits already issued by visas, as well as residence permits for those who have russian citizenship should be reviewed already, residence permits and visas issued in latvia to those who support russian aggression. they need to be cancelled. however, in any case, them. in principle, it should not be extended except in specific, proven special circumstances. after all residence permit should no longer be issued to those permanent residents of latvia who will accept. the purge and citizenship they will have to leave our country trade in residence permits, by previous governments their unjustified generosity in issuing residence permits to russian citizens, behind which only

this is only latvia, many european countries are going to go even further.our people a people, an outcast and are not allowed to visit under any circumstances. now is the time to remember the last time the so-called national question arose in europe. and how the matter ended, we know, with gas chambers - these are concentration camps, but it all began with small restrictions too. let's remember. 1933 adolf hitler comes to power in germany from that moment germany is the first in the world a country where nationalism becomes the state ideology, especially goes to the jews, whom hitler harbored a painful hatred in 1933. they play a prominent role in the state. it owns twenty percent of the banks, 40 percent of the textile trade , and eighty percent of department stores, and jewish capital in trade and industry was a serious competitor to german capital. this state of affairs caused resentment. among the germans. whose financial situation after the first world war was greatly shaken and then hitler said precisely jews want to drag the world into a new war and t

in latvia, in riga , eighty-fifth.atvia and riga from the nazi invaders. yesterday the figures of the soldiers of the liberators were demolished. today, the figure of the mother of the motherland was destroyed and the last stella remained, which, apparently , will also be dismantled in the coming days, so they want to destroy the memory. about those 200 thousand red army soldiers who fell freeing their clothes , by the way, there were a large number of latvians among them whole latvian divisions fought for the liberation of latvia, but today's nationalists do not want to remember not to talk about it and these ignoramuses, unfortunately, do not want to listen to us when we remind that the german authorities are the german authorities. they did not even consider this land as some kind of independent unit has already been given. the name of these territories was sent by the reich, thus the fate of these people of this population would be clear. there would be complete harmonization, dissolution in the german nation, what

of beijing after estonia poland is thinking how to stop russia from issuing visas to russians, and latvia wants to check previously issued entry permits. where will such a policy lead? according to local authorities, rockets hit the residential area of ​​enerhodar, one person died and another was injured . after them, representatives of the administration of the region vladimir roga said that the russian air defense covered the nuclear power plant damage on the p. no, she works normally. in donetsk, after an artillery strike by ukrainian militants , two civilians were killed today from the shelling of the capital of the dpr , several buildings were damaged, including a kindergarten and a dental clinic as a result of a ukrainian attack, one person died in makeevka svetlodarsk, three were injured, there are also wounded in horlivka, according to which the apu reportedly fired more than 20 shells from the rocket launcher hail. russian troops took full control of the settlement, ude in the kharkiv region was informed about this by the ministry of defense , the military department also announc

after all a residence permit should no longer be issued to those permanent residents of latvia who willssian citizenship. them. we will have to leave our country trade in residence permits, by previous governments of theirs, the unjustified generosity of issuing residence permits to russian citizens, behind which only the vested interests of some political dealers were hidden, created security risks and contributed to bilingualism, it is time to reconsider this unsuccessful and dangerous policy, latvia actually continues the visa on the agenda, which had already been announced earlier, lithuania and estonia official tallinn announced that on august 17 it would stop letting the country of russian citizens with schengen visas issued specifically to estonia. however, there are a number of exceptions for diplomats and family members and the driver of international cargo transportation category visas on humanitarian issues. at the same time, the idea was expanded in lithuania. europe should not issue visas. and the russian position, even if in russia there were 5-10% of people opposed to the

i have done a lot for latvia and this year is a very good result and were in latvia several times atd well, i would like, probably, i don’t know, maybe some respect for myself, in general, suspicion now in latvia everything and everything is connected with russia, our tv channels are completely banned. there they show the whole of june, at the same time the rain, recognized in russia and leg, received a review. already the first broadcasts in the free world for rain turned out to be problematic, and even rain is perceived in latvia as an agent of the kremlin, at least, the theater director albis, hermanes, which until recently was staged by the moscow theater nation performance gorbachev and received awards now in riga are criticizing the rain. another illusion collapsed. for me tonight a month ago. i was also pleased that the rain russian tv channel and youtube channel moved to latvia, i recommend everyone to watch today's interview, where their journalist katrikadze speaks with the mayor. riga is no longer journalism, but a cruel political manipulation that is absolutely contrary t

road to the shrines already at the first point darkened in the eyes or on the streets, lithuania and latvia began to turn off the lighting of residents in shock. on august 30-31, president of belarus alexander lukashenko held a series of telephone conversations with the president of azerbaijan or hamam aliyev, first of all, they discussed topical issues of belarusian azerbaijani bilateral relations, the leaders also exchanged views and on the subject of the international agenda, the main topic of conversation with the president of uzbekistan was the upcoming shanghai cooperation organization, which will be held in mid- september in the plans of the head of the belarusian state to participate in this event, the development of belarusian uzbek cooperation alexander lukashenko and shavkat mirziyoyev. we spoke both in the context of bilateral cooperation and through the prism of interaction in integration structures. and in the upcoming you yourself in uzbekistan, there was a speech during a telephone conversation between alexander lukashenko and vladimir putin on the sidelines of the shanghai

would have to leave latvia.ced russia state sponsoring terrorism, and its actions in ukraine terrorism, raising rates last sunday from the previously closed russian consulates, jews, shares and daugavpils the police took off the guard, they say. you can fly. in general , today in the baltics, a lot has been turned upside down in countries where the procession of fss veterans is supported, monuments to the liberators of europe from fascism are being destroyed, a lot of strange things really happen, for example, lithuanian figure skaters margarita drobyazko and povilas vanagas were deprived of state awards by decree of the president of lithuania. order of the gediminas of the fifth degree only for the fact that they skated in tatyana navka's ice show swan lake, presented in sochi to dmitry peskov's bouquet for lithuanian athletes became dutch compensation from russia for which they were deprived of awards or citizenship that they came to russia for the fact that they perform in front of children in front of specta

latvia from german fascism.ment, the latvian authorities defiantly want to devalue the feat and the victims from the nose of the monument in the riga victory park went on for 3 days. first, the sculptures of the three-soviet soldiers of the liberators were destroyed, on the second day they dealt with the figure of mother rodina thursday, they filled up the central elements of the composition, the eighty-meter obelisk with counter-ended stars. by the decision of the riga authorities, all elements of the demolished monument will be disposed of, as a fish pond near the monument of no historical value will be drained, people mourn from it in the zoo, the monument has stood for a short time since 1985. a memorial was solemnly opened in riga in honor of the soldiers who liberated soviet latvia and its capital from the nazi invaders. thousands of people gathered on victory square where this sculptural ensemble was created. these are veterans of the war of the liberators, in whose honor a monument was erected five star

now he, and not soviet soldiers in latvia, is honored in solemn processions.demolition of soviet monuments are threatened with consequences if any foreigner, regardless of citizenship will be involved in illegal and unauthorized actions during the dismantling of monuments in the victory park, he will be included in the list of undesirable persons for latvia. and expelled countries of russian citizenship in latvia about 40,000 people. those who remained to live there after the collapse of the ussr, they must forget both the common soviet past and the common victory over fascism for the demolition of the monument, the riga authorities did not spare even 2 million euros, but will the costs pay off the examples of estonia, where the t-34 tank was recently demolished, memory showed well erase and to an empty place everyone who still remembers comes, and when germanova lilia zorina ilya sirotdinova and ruslan mashko channel one large-scale projects that should provide russia with technological sovereignty today discussed vladimir putin with igor shuvalov, he heads t

and the president of latvia went even further and called for an audit of visas and residence permitsed to russians. and what else are some european countries ready to go to restrict entry to russian citizens nikolai sokolov will tell the president of latvia russians, but also residence permits already issued visas. he proposes to annul, as well as the residence permits of those who have russian citizenship should already be reviewed, residence permits and visas issued in latvia to those who support russian aggression. they need to be cancelled. however, in any case, them. in principle, it should not be extended except in specific, proven special circumstances. after all , residence permits should no longer be issued to those permanent residents of latvia who will take russian citizenship. them. have to leave ours. trading in residence permits, by previous governments their unjustified generosity in issuing residence permits to russian citizens, behind which only the vested interests of some political dealers were hidden, created security risks and contributed to bilingualism, it is t

in latvia every day it becomes more and more like this on the portal public initiatives. one after another, openly russophobic petitions appear. for example , it demands to ban the activities of the russian union of latvia and here it calls. to create a quote from people loyal to russia, they say, thanks to this society, it will become safer. and some latvian journalists even relish the details of how this process could take place, for greater clarity, they attached an image to the article. toli prison. tolik he is from the camp in the winter of europeans. we will be warmed, not russian gas opportunity to watch how russians are packed in boxes or columns into wagons to be sent to russia, but despite such intimidation, the defenders of the monument do not intend to give up, the activists of the russian union of latvia urge those who are not indifferent to come to victory park with candles and flowers. after all, not just the fate of the monument is at stake, but the memory of those who, at the cost of their lives , liberated europe from fascism ekaterina shamaeva evgenia z

he will be included in the list of persons, undesirable for latvia and deported countries, despite the several dozen people gathered on the square, two groups came out, the defenders of the monument and some young people with latvian flags advocating the demolition between the parties , a verbal skirmish began, then into action. the police intervened, those present were asked to disperse, after which they proceeded to violent dispersal and detention, some people in civilian clothes also participated in the dispersal. life will not pass in the paw of the mayor of riga martinch-stakis said that the monument to the liberators after the demolition will be destroyed, because the museums occupation did not recognize it as an artistic value, while the museum itself claims that they did not evaluate the monument for lack of such authority for demolition , almost everything is ready. journalists from one of the local tv channels claim that the workers were brought up in a car with lithuanian numbers. and they say that they allegedly try not to advertise the preparation for dismantling in russia

latvia also supports the ban on the entry of russians the eu stressed the head of the republic he doeseem to care at all that gas prices in the country jumped almost 10 times before the autumn cold, contemplation of how russians are packed into wagons to be sent home will be warmed by one latvian columnist happily writes . well here as they say, no comment, and the prime minister of estonia, on the air of the british television channel sky news, called all russian tourists a threat to the country's security. this is the same kaia kallas who does not get tired of repeating that for a trip to europe, as well as to the baltic states, not only rights are needed, but the privileges of the baltic states are being prepared for such a springboard to put pressure on russia, this is implied and the queue for cleaning from this convoy is conditional. yes, that is, from the fifth column from the point of view of the baltic elites. this implies a complete purge of all disloyal elements. inside the country, this is where such a policy towards the russian-speaking population comes from. as a matter o

this is how the authorities of latvia speak contemptuously about the monument, which they promise toetely destroy , is being done. it's at the most defiantly disgusting. i would say offensive to our country for all russians in uniform. decision it was decided to make this demolition this dismantling in the most vile forms, the task is worth it. before the authorities, before the ruling nationalists , to completely erase the memory of the winners of world war ii began again on tuesday evening , residents of riga came out to defend the monument and performed songs of the war years, including the famous dark night. mark bernes, the police behaved extremely harshly, pulling people out of the crowd, and the head of the latvian ministry of foreign affairs promised in advance that if there were foreigners among the detainees, they would be deported hint, clearly in russian. well, the fascist will pass, the holiday will not pass for those whom the latvian authorities are persecuting for participating in actions against the demolition of the monument by the russian diplomatic mission. in riga

in latvia what to recognize?communicate, uh, people who were in the baltic states in ukraine are returning here. they also say that they immediately sign under the press of the special services, where is the boy who interviewed lukashenka is forced to be with us for some reason, he is being pressured by belarusians or latvian special services. yes, yes, because here it is an indicator of who is putting pressure on whom and who is really asking whom. well look how differently we act. that is, we open without visas and say, we invite you. come to our territory. buy see. rate communicate calmly freely with any of our people. we don't take you through the streets. find out how we live and how you would see it all with your own eyes and how the other side does it so that we don’t go there and see that the situation is getting worse there, what is happening on the shelves stores, how people live there, that side closes the entrance to its territory, it forbids us to enter there, so that, god forbid, we don’t really see

in latvia a.ntration camp. moreover, they objected in every possible way to its holding, under the auspices of unesco, in a number of european capitals, and that's all, because there is only one punitive expedition. e eight latvian e-e police battalions. eh, gave us terrible sacrifices. uh, more than uh, 10,000 women killed and more than 7,000 abducted children, just one of these figures. let's see yes, from 90 to ninety- nine percent of the jews who were exterminated, including with the help of the local population in the countries. didn't that teach them anything. the question is rhetorical, i understand. they want the same thing with the russians . weapons and so on, when descendants and even still living ss men walk there every year. this is a form of repentance. how many are left? what's the difference in school in germany what's the difference? at least only 11 nazi flags. it's that, every year the russian minister of defense of latvia e goes, because it 's impossible to show in riga in euro

this is how the authorities of latvia speak contemptuously about the monument, which they promise tois being done. it's at the most defiantly disgusting. i would say offensive to our country for all russians in form. the decision was made in such a way as to make this demolition this dismantling in the most savage forms the task is worth it. before the authorities, before the ruling nationalists, to completely erase the memory of the winners of world war ii began on tuesday evening, residents of riga came out to defend the monument and performed songs of the war years, including the famous dark night. mark bernes, the police behaved extremely harshly, pulling people out of the crowd, and the head of the latvian ministry of foreign affairs promised in advance that if there were foreigners among the detainees, then they deported hint, understandable in russian. the fascist will not go into the paw of those whom the latvian authorities are persecuting for participating in actions against the demolition of the russian monument, the diplomatic mission in riga began issuing visas so that p

to the liberation of latvia from nazi occupation. demolish about 70 monuments, and the quiet glanders are gradually erasing this memory. and this is a very serious moment, since all these e are symbolic. yes, signs of visibility of that history they remove them from the real victory, because indeed they themselves are very eyesores , since their ideals of those political elites who are in power today are exactly the opposite. that's what they do. and they do it. this consent is under stormy approval. in fact, that is, the most freedom-loving europe, which has always said that it is defending someone else's point of view, as we see, they are never ready for anything. they have always been, so to speak, at a low start in order to finish off the destroyed soviet union, which also collapsed and now split the russian the federation to destroy the memory of all those events that took place in the middle of the 20th century, because in fact, this most collective europe is primarily responsible for the nazi fascist regimes that they drink at

there are about 50,000 people in latvia.e there, after the collapse of the ussr, they should forget it. the soviet past and the common victory over fascism , the foundations of the monument, the riga authorities did not spare even 2 million euros, but will the costs pay off the examples of estonia, where the t-34 tank was recently demolished, and even though the monument is no longer there, but you can’t erase the memory itself, alyona germanova. lilia azorina was given by the acerborn and ruslan mashko channel one. speaker of the state duma vyacheslav volodin returned from a working trip to the donetsk people's republic with its head denis pushilin and mps advice. he discussed the importance of a unified legal framework in different areas. more than 70 representatives of all factions of the lower house of the russian parliament in the donetsk people's republic are constantly working in the donbass. residents are citizens of the russian federation. they participated in the elections to the state duma. these are our voters an

in latvia, a cleansing of the information space has begun; people are called in for conversations ate security service, they are suppressed, they threaten and they put them in order, you can’t speak anywhere, write to express your thoughts. even the russian television forbid to watch, threatening to start persecution, reached the point of absurdity, which, by the way, is already familiar. they demanded that pankratov remove youtube videos, remove likes from posts and repent for supporting russia on according to our source, from the first minutes of detention, ruslan pankratov was interrogated not only by the latvian state security service, but also by the british mi6 service, which is probably why they still don’t let a lawyer in, while the information, not the most rosy, sources report that pankratov can be tortured in order to get the necessary things from him testimonies, as was the case with another political prisoner to bloggers kirill fedorov. he spent 3 1/2 months in prison and was released on a fabulous bail. and while he was under arrest, he was tortured with electric curren

they are afraid, because we are so united russians in latvia and we can really go out in such a number that there will not be enough of any responsible police. well, the security forces are preparing to firmly prevent riots that could start due to the dismantling of the monument, the head of the latvian ministry of internal affairs admitted to jailing everyone local tv mass and protests. we were in riga back in may. after the public services mercilessly bulldozed all the flowers with which the local residents strewed the slabs in front of the monument on victory day, the order was to clear the square. now , in every sense, they have given the authorities of the republic to such frenzy rejoice that at last we are getting rid of this red from this red legacy of the communist legacy from these russians, and, as if even this line is often erased, that is, the red army soviet soldiers there or uh, soviet power. she ends up being called. well, in latvian. it's still like that. popularly called russian, in fact, russian is being destroyed and it’s not hiding, the government of salads and a mo

, the parliament of latvia seems to be 67 votes and 100. maybe i'm a little wrong hi the audience will check it. this is a very powerful signal. even though the country is small in terms of size and population, it is a start. i am sure that other countries will join. i am especially pleased that this path of recognizing russia as a country that encourages terrorists and finances terrorists was started by latvia itself, because my my early political life is connected with latvia, i lived there , i have relatives there, i have many friends and observers there, including those who voted today. i have already thanked some of them. i am sure that other countries now they will join such a decision. that is, they will make such a decision regarding the meeting of individual politicians of powerful prominent states by spotting, despite everything, it changes the issues that they want to solve in this situation, because each leader has the interests of the state that he leads, but in a situation when it is already obvious to everyone that putin is a

and this is the memory of their feat, too, latvia in large cities. first of all, the corps, which were formed from latvians, went. this is a monument to soviet soldiers though. including the better the scar that laid down their heads because of the freedom of the latvian people, the demolition price of more than 2 million euros causes irritation most of the amount transferred to the lithuanian contractor, who in turn delegated the right to demolish the ukrainian company. completely unkempt, let's say, the roads are ahead, the expensive heating season, despite this, the authorities with the zeal of a hooligan, who was given up to some opportunity. eh, they spend money on the left to the right, however, the voices do not agree with them in riga stubbornly does not hear. yesterday, near victory park, two pickets were held at once, the protesters, who reminded of the nuremberg principles, were immediately detained by the police, those who stood with an openly xenophobic poster suitcase station. russia is not touched did not cause dissatisfaction with the

are residents of latvia, if they receive a name russian citizenship.y will have to leave its territory, just expel russian citizens. estonia is another example. estonia announced today that from next week it is closing the border for russians with schengen visas issued to estonia a in the european union. today, again, at the suggestion of the baltic countries, the czech republic of some other countries , a discussion began on the initiative to ban the issuance of schengen visas to russians and the ban on the entry of russian citizens into the european union, let me remind you that recently with such a requirement for the european union in the united states. in general , the president of ukraine zelensky appealed to the g7 countries, and in estonia, latvia, the czech republic, he is supported in this of course, the likelihood that the european union as a whole will make such a decision is extremely small, not only such traditionally tourist countries as italy, spain, greece and cyprus are against this well, even germany today, german chancellor olaf sch

russian occupier enters the schengen country, and how then will he put his stamp on the occupied latviaich will move on. of course, this will break this the schengen system is the same and the whole point is that we are talking about the consequences of the russian occupation of part of ukraine and the need to stop this war, forcing putin to return his army home, forcing the russian army to return and also, it is the same russian citizens who have the power to influence the politics of putin himself, because it is impossible to change putin from kyiv or from washington. putin can be changed by some of his own citizens, and they live very comfortably, which means that they should be taken out of this comfort zone slowly so that they understand all the consequences . this aggressive policy that they support with their own hands studio p oleksandr what are the prospects of recognition of a country by russia as a sponsor of terrorism now in the states something is stuck on this issue well, you understand that how uh if they recognize russia as a sponsor of terrorism to the countries, then m

, and today the president of latvia said that the russian-speaking residents of the country who are notshould be isolated. how he imagines this isolation was not explained. also, the president of latvia replied that the conflict in ukraine made the answer quotation rather more sensitive to the presence of russians. well, in continuation of the topic of the destruction of memory about the soviet wars of liberators, news is coming from moldova about the fact that there is a sherpen bridgehead on it, and in the navaninsky district of the republic where they were going, they are afraid of liberation. chisinau was extinguished, the eternal flame informs the national coordinating committee. victory no official statements on this matter were made. it is known that the supply of gas to the eternal flame was carried out at the request of the ministry of defense of moldova to the territorial office of the enterprise, moldova gas. now, in addition to the initiatives from lithuania, the local authorities have come up with new rules for the passage of russian citizens across the border along head's

the families of latvia declared russia a country sponsoring terrorism, this is reported on the website of the parliament. true, at the moment it is not available because in response to the anti-russian decision, the official page of the seimas was hacked by the hacker group kill net. the statement adopted by latvia states that russia has allegedly supported and financed terrorist regimes. it also sounds an appeal to the eu countries immediately. suspend the issuance of visas to russians and belarusians impose comprehensive sanctions against moscow the head of the ministry of foreign affairs, latvia, in turn, said that changes would be made to the country's legislation, according to which, upon obtaining russian citizenship , residents of latvia would not be granted a residence permit and would be obliged to leave the country in response in russian. the federation council was called upon to take the toughest measures against riga as an economic as well as of a political nature. the estonian authorities have decided to close the entry of russians who have schengen visas issued by the rep

what kind of country is latvia and where is it going?et legacy , the regime has driven dissenters into the kitchen. here you are not very fond of talking about these topics so much in the kitchen they will be indignant, but in fact, even i am now conveying to you. so they are afraid of a great fear , as if i didn’t have anything in my homeland in latvia for this, people are intimidated by people who, we say, have nothing to lose. they leave, either to the west, the european union or vice versa, someone to the east in representatives of the authorities are engaged in intimidation of russia, tired of pretending to be democrats for dissent, they will be persecuted about it. directly speaks the latvian president egils. levitz , the negative effect lies in the fact that a non-loyal state has appeared - part of russian society. our task is to deal with this part and isolate it from the rest of the russian-speaking in latvia , almost a third of the total population of the russian diplomatic corps in the country is now aimed at saving them from

how the mass unconscious reacts in beijing , the president of latvia, following other baltic politicians, proposed not to renew and annul the visas and residence permits issued to russians. in yerevan, according to the latest data, one person died there are already 57 victims among them, many children. two powerful explosions occurred in the pyrotechnics warehouse of the wholesale trade center, which is located almost in the center of the city. and after that, the building collapsed and a pyrotechnics fire started. until now, it continues to detonate, which greatly complicates extinguishing on the spot. dozens of fire brigades are working . local residents are helping to dismantle the rubble, from under which 10 people have already been taken out. russian troops took full control of the settlement . udy in the kharkiv region reported this in the ministry of defense, the military department also announced the destruction of five command posts of the armed forces of ukraine and said that facts of mass desertion among the ukrainian military were recorded in the north-east of the dpr. as a r

latvia from german fascism., the latvian authorities defiantly want to devalue the feat and the victims from the nose of the monument in the riga victory park went on for 3 days. first they destroyed the sculptures of three soviet soldiers of the liberators, on the second day they dealt with the figure of the mother of the motherland. on thursday , the central elements of the composition were filled up with an eighty-meter obelisk with five-pointed stars. by the decision of the riga authorities, all elements of the demolished monument will be disposed of as having no historical value. the pond near the monument drains fish, mourns from it in the zoo, the monument did not stand for long since 1985, a memorial was solemnly opened in riga in honor of the soldiers of the liberators of soviet latvia and its capital from the nazi invaders. on victory square where this sculptural ensemble was created, thousands of people gathered. these are veterans of the war of liberators, in honor of whom a monument was erected to a