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

uh, well, in general, here i am a citizen of latvia and , uh, latvia in recent years. all recent years in fact, in the information space , including the western one in the western media, it is present here on march 16 on the day of the latvian legion, and those latvians and latvians who fought on the side of the soviet union, they were in the shadows. and somehow i wanted to make up for it. this one, uh, struck this one, yes, and i, frankly, have long conceived this film, but three years ago i started shooting and i had four recorded. clever interviews with veterans, but not a single frame was included in the film, because the events in the twenty-second year simply became develop. so it was necessary to follow the events. and those plans that were originally they. well, to put it mildly, collapsed. it was necessary to go for life in order for the film to be relevant. how did you manage to put it together? that's it, these unique shots of the destruction of monuments, and you took somewhere in the archive yourself and went to shoot on some or they provide you somewhere

and poets, when they say that latvia is the land of latvians - this is true, but not all, latvia is therussians and belarusians, and jews and baltic germans, who also lived here for centuries. many had you, they don’t think of you any other motherland except latvia well, it suits the son, that spirit and now presents a new song album dedicated to the mother. i am latvian ukrainian and russian. and i used to also try it in general for me today in russian, but i thought, well, there was no such inspiration, there was no such situation. i wrote to the fact that, well, these events that started to create this, well, the division of people in my country is already provoking already. well, about 30 years. yes, i try to somehow unite people , it didn’t work out how to build the future, in general , i try to divide the state together all the time and i love it very much. gazelle of latvian russians is not afraid to speak loudly about common values; he sees his mission in this, or i'm already 65. so especially there is nothing to fear, too, and in god. i love and so i think that he is also more

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

and poets when they say that latvia is the land of latvians. true, but not all, latvia is the land of russians and belarusians, and baltic jews and germans, who also lived here centuries. many darlings cannot imagine any other motherland than latvia. well, it suits the son, that spirit of the name is presented by a new song album dedicated to his mother. i am a latvian ukrainian and i tried russian in general today in russian, but i thought, well, there was no such inspiration, there was no such situation. no, i wrote that, well, these events that started to create it, well, the division of people in my country is already provoking already. well , for about 30 years, until about the very beginning , they tried to somehow unite people, it didn’t work, how to build the future, in general i try to share the state together all the time and love it very much. i took russian latvians, he is not afraid to speak loudly about common values, he sees his mission in this, and i am already 65. so there is nothing to be especially afraid of in god either. i

uh, well, in general, here i am a citizen of latvia and , uh, latvia in recent years.ll recent years, in fact, in the information space, including in the west in the western media, it is present here on march 16 on the day of the latvian legion, and those latvians and latvians who fought on the side of the soviet union, they were in the shadow. and somehow i wanted to make up for it. this one, uh, struck this one, yes, and i, frankly, for a long time conceived this film, but started shooting about three years ago and hmm, i recorded four voluminous interviews with veterans. but not a single frame was included in the film, because events in the twenty-second year simply began to develop. so it was necessary to follow the events. and those plans that were originally they. well, to put it mildly, collapsed. it was necessary to go for life, so that the film was an actual reality. weaker desire, how did it happen to collect like that? that's it. here are the unique footage of the destruction of monuments. e you somewhere they took it in the archive, they themselves went out

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

and poets when they say that latvia is the land of latvians., but not all, latvia is the land of both russians and belarusians, and baltic jews and germans, who also lived here for centuries. many had you, they don't think of you another motherland except latvia well, it suits the son, that spirit of the name is presented by a new song album dedicated to the mother. i am a latvian ukrainian and i tried russian in general today in russian, but i thought, well, there was no such inspiration, there was no such situation. i wrote that, well, these events that began to create this, well, the separation of people, how m-m in my country already provoke already. well, about 30 years. yes, i try to somehow unite people , it didn’t work out, how to build the future, in general , the state is together all the time divide. the gazelle of latvian russians is not afraid to speak loudly about common values; he sees his mission in this, or i'm already 65. so there is nothing to be especially afraid of in god either. i love and love so much that he is also more

in latvia began ukraine information space and environment.block colors began to dominate in cities and towns on the radio sounded news releases on the ukrainian model everywhere ukrainian flags from the cabinet of ministers and the ministry of foreign affairs to schools, hospitals , electronic screens, banners, websites. the media of private companies are even painting trams yellow-blocked; atm screens are calling to help ukrainian residents with supplies to ukraine . latvia indeed, everything in the world will come out on top with its military budget. this, of course, is not so much out of love for ukraine and ukrainians. how many because of hostility to russia for ukraine and against putin leads the president himself is an ehillelite in latvia, he is the most significant official categorically, advocating the ousting of the russian language later in an interview. he will also speak in the spirit that the russian-speaking celebrating victory day should be sorted out and isolated. the rally russian voice against the war was given the most pre

present day latvia and nazi germany. during the second world war and after the third border the must go door. was a diversion of the leave rather than the bottom up three. things it would like to say is nationalistic and that the languages of the things that they had to speak. the things about in some rights and that if you're not a citizen. of sex and drugs 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 receives an excellent education both as an engineer and as a journalist his son is a school people. papa tell me what the sentence means. is often at the loss when he tries to figure out his math textbook it's written in latvia and. the internet translator says it needs headlines well yes that's a possibility of. 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

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

why did the russian flag was banned in latvia? they said it was on may the 8th and none, but on may the town. it was not on made attempts to police officers approached alexander and asked him to put the flag away after long conversation they apologized aloud. my son go then alexander, late flowers and candles, and one hour later he was detained out 2 flats have been searched on my hard drive and seen kyle were taken my son, his trust. now of course now the tensions emerged after all sorts is used. bulldozers to clear flowers brought by locals to the monuments for the men in 9th day to day commemorations. in response, people brought even more flowers to the sides with police then completely blocking off the area. riga has been one of the most vocal critics of moscow's actions in ukraine, and that is in chief of sport in a live via believes there's no justification for such aggressive actions from the authorities. no hurry, naturally, nothing can justify and explain such a reaction to people such repression to which they now subject

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

, which fought for the independence of latvia.tor of its russian-language atmod newspaper there, because it was also in latin , of course, but in russian, by the way , we printed a lot there ukrainian materials and ukrainian authors, anarchists from kharkov and there, er, from lviv. i remember there was such an article, and chornovil came to me, and vyacheslav chornovil. i remember him very well , and there was also, as i remember, an interview i'm with him , and we used to say that russian schools in latvia is such a factory, interfront, interfront, it was a russian organization for the soviet union, for everything soviet and such, and many teachers who worked there were the wives of soviet officers, and in general there was such an atmosphere, and i suspect that that's how it is and still is, and to some extent it has remained in riga, there was such a monument, we just don't have much time left, i want to ask this again because in ukraine right now there are terribly fierce discussions around the monument to the mother of the p

the president of latvia also said how is the situation the people of latvia to the fact that money is allocated, well, in fact, their taxes for ukraine and what future prospects can we expect from this office , what is this office, if you understand, the understanding is that we give ukraine more would be given if russia attacked on and this is er it looks like something very much everyone understands it, of course, in latvia there is a certain part of the population, er, a larger share of the russian-speaking population, which eh, which, or we will support it on a and and eh, how is it in the south and their russia, eh, at least from the point of view, not everything is like this and everything is like that, it happens like this, but what does such a thing do in us, such are the consequences of years of years of soviet families, yes , the soviet party, sir. the majority of the population supports ukraine and supports it by e- e assistance as payments e-e gives ukraine more than e-e now there was a dispute, collection of funds was taking place to help the country and er for these days

interested in latvia. our country's much too small. and we don't have any mineral resources. i'm hoping there won't be any fighting like in the crimea or eastern ukraine. i just want to live in peace and raise my boy. >> even at peacetime he is separated from his song for long peesheds. he can't support his family so every two months he heads off to france to drive a taxi. >> we could breed pigs here like in the old days and sell them to russia. it's an enormous market virtually limitless. we could sell anything there. having russia as our neighbor is a huge plus. >> his friend from the national guard runs a motel on the highway to russia. >> it's family-owned and does good business with truck drivers from russia. so he has no interest whatsoever in either military conflict or economic sanctions against moscow. >> the highway is like a life line for us. the trucks carry the bulk of our goods into russia. any military action would put a stop to all that. it would not only hurt my business. but all the busin

latvia. in addition, this year about 3,000 ukrainian military personnel are to undergo training on the territory of... latvia. a fifty-eight-year-old janitor suspected of pedophilia was detained in minsk; according to available data, he lured male minors to visit him and committed acts of a sexual nature. teenagers who were left without parental supervision came into view; several cases are already known. the man worked in the housing and communal services sector and had previously been identified. we encourage parents trustees should be interested in where and how children spend their leisure time, pay attention to their social circle, if you suspect criminal acts against a child, immediately report it to the police. let us remind you that in our country it is proposed at the legislative level to establish compulsory treatment for pedophiles, as well as preventive supervision by the police. the draft law was initiated by the ministry of internal affairs. in recent years , the number of crime

janis borda bordens minister of justice of latvia of the republic of latvia i hope to hear him now butswitch to the russian language because i hope that your vlad at least this language is still remembered by someone hello mistress yanis good evening good evening ukraine thank you for finding time on sunday, i will tell you honestly that we are all, well, i definitely follow the russian mass media, namely topics that they call themselves and that everyone calls liberal, but i find a lot of strange things in particular i will now speak and give a speech. how do you understand the rain from the water television, which is under the fire of criticism and not for the first time already in latvia? so er edifyingly inserted questions about what you are doing correctly what are you removing monuments and is it good or bad and what would it look like from the outside well yes journalists question but because we are both of you and you know what russia is and i know what russia is i know you questions which are not really questions, but this is my emotion, but your reason, mr. minister, so that

this is latvia. latvia, yes, latvia. post-war years. only thing that was kind of fantasy was the theater. and i was like... on a submarine, the beginning of the war, it was as if everything had already frozen, frozen, they had such landings on skis, they went out and defended leningrad, in one of these, he was the commander of this detachment, in one of these attacks... he fired a machine gun, he saw that the guys were starting to fall, and he closed the gap, but what do you remember from that time as a military man? you know, i remember, the first thing is that these were germans, amazingly, i was already four, these motorcycles that i saw for the first time with a sidecar, there were two germans sitting, young, that’s the image, i still have it, i still ca n’t i can’t hear german speech, the german language. i immediately start to cry and i, well, you were also repatriated to latvia, yes , it was to latvia, then we were still sitting in stalag 340 abran, so, you were born in the leningrad region, they wrote me down, because my mother

a year ago, seven of latvia took amendments to the law on migration, which obligated russian citizensto holders of a permanent residence permit with a large questionnaire. it is necessary to fill in a quote about attitudes towards moscow’s policy in general, discriminatory and humiliating measures drew attention to this in the russian council for human rights, and there he called on the council of europe and the osce to respond to the threat of eviction of russians from latvia, according to the executive director of the russia today media group, kirill vyshinsky up to 6,000, citizens of russia who were forced to surrender latvian language exam. he was not given. now they face deportation if they choose one state language. latvian russian has the status of a foreign language in september last year. seven latvia adopted a draft law on the transition of all education to the latvian language within 3 years, the russian language can be studied only as a so-called minority language. well, to add to this, a purposeful state policy of the almost complete eradication of the russian language. a

no russians to enter latvia?nly 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 termed a hu

there is a substantial russian speaking minority in latvia, they're only a few people in the cold to go or speak russian. this made communicating with patients difficult at the start, the turn to come down to the, to the. so let's go at it as a beginning when you start to talk to lots friends here in russian. they ask you why russian, when i explained that i'm from ukraine and on the learning rock fan, they tried to communicate in russian. but the queen, what shows is it now i speak to them and locks in with mistakes and not fluency, of course. but in lots and non the less and use this meetings of sim, colorful. but even though she has had to face many challenges here in latvia, she still can picture herself returning to ukraine in the future, which i'm a little google and so they can little but my hometown mario focus occupied on right now. it is occupied by the russians, and while i hope it will be free and i just don't know why, and this is also, i have no place to return to. maybe they will start to rebuild everything. no, i don't want to return. let me switch. no matter whether

let's talk now about latvia. in russia. propaganda, it is widely believed that all their citizens, or those who belong to the russian world, are subjected to mistreatment. we all know very well that russians living in latvia are not discriminated against, but there is quite a lot. it is a legal requirement to know the national language, and it is the basis of every country. we see that in russia there are no democratic discussions with those who have a different opinion or with those who cannot communicate in russian. well , firstly, russian schools, which had been on the territory of latvia for 250 years in one form or another, were finally closed, you have to name when the schools were closed, and about two years ago ago, there was a lot of discrimination, but what is now the last, what has worsened in the last, then has worsened, well, first of all. from the state, therefore they cannot have an alternative point of view, there are so-called state media in latvia, radio in russian, lsm and so on, in general, in

, latvia, yes, latvia, after the war. we had a big, luxurious banquet, and directors came up to me, bothrom moscow, and i won’t name those from st. petersburg, they invited me, they said, baby, if your fate doesn’t work out, we are waiting for you, petrovna, war is for you - this is not a story from books, not a film, this is really a part of your life, what do you most often remember from that war time? moreover, your father was also a military man, yes, he served in kronshtat, on a submarine, at the beginning of the war it was as if everything had already frozen, frozen, they had such landings on skis, they went out and defended leningrad, in one of these ... he was the commander of this detachment, in one of these throws a german machine gun was firing, he saw that the guys were starting to fall and he closed the image, and what do you remember from that time military? you know, the first thing i remembered was that they were germans, amazingly, i was already four and now... these motorcycles, which i saw for the first time with a sidecar, were sitting on two germans, young with beaut

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

put make lithuania news agency file force. ethan latvia. we've heard from the communications director of sputnik parent company espionage charges against merits are complete nonsense. the baltic states are a testing ground for lawlessness. the act either on direct instructions or in coordination with their superiors and the european union and in the us. in crane refuses to stop shooting for the ropes. christmas off the vladimir putin orders a 36 hour russian things fired to begin on friday. and the un chief scraps a fruitless mission to investigate the mass killing of ukrainian military prisoners in the don. yes, were public despite previously pledging to get to the bottom of the atrocity. a very room. welcome to you. this is our see international with the late as well news out date is good to have you with us as up, sorry. this are the editor in chief of the lithuanian branch of this book, make news agency has been detained in the lafayette cap as a weaker. my cousin who holds the latvian passport, is reportedly being accused of espionage

latvia immediately after the interview.for interrogation to the state security service in riga, and at the end i had to sign a paper. if i continue in the same spirit, then i will have criminal liability. why did i raise my son like that, i raised my eldest son like that, then the little ones. eh, i'll also educate. they need to be removed. now this is their home, a room in the vitebsk hotel, nowhere to cook , wash a couple of suitcases from latvia, they were miraculously released. all of course, with necessary we do not they took it, because we were going urgently, and in this room we took or the school managed to bring out the main equipment, it was bought by teachers and parents. the studio has never had support in latvia 12 years tens of hours of live broadcasts reports interviews up to 5 million views online and trips around the world. we were just in spain or two were going to macedonia, you understand, it was simply trampled down in one second, because we were refused immediately in the premises of valente. and the c

well, latvia... we are talking about the americans.sh, the french and, of course, the germans, who won't even give their taurus long—range missiles to the ukrainians. but those key countries, as yet, have not lifted constraints upon use of their long—range missiles. well... what do you say to the ukrainians when they say, "we have to get this authorisation"? absolutely, what we say to ukrainians is, first of all, not only say we supply ukrainians with equipment and also with drones, which have reach as well. at the same time, of course, what we say that we will do all our best also to convince our partners, to advocate that exactly — that all weaponry, all equipment could and should be used also against aggressor country and territory in self—defence of ukraine. and on that basis, minister, i have to be frank with you — you are failing. your persuasive efforts are not working with your allies, in particular the americans. why not? no, i don't think so that we are failing. of course, it's a continuous process. we have to take into accou

please tell me you are citizens, latvia son is a citizen of latvia and i am not citizen, latvia that resident of latvia, a stateless person. did our embassy contact you if you have a lawyer, what does the lawyer say? what prospects we briefly looked at on the internet, this article suggests 5 years in prison, which, of course, is insane. lawyers have the embassy also contacted until the lawyer. most likely, in the near future, probably, we will change, because the one that is only weak, and today there will be a meeting with a new lawyer and about the consulate will give a link was. they called me to offer help at this stage. i won’t comment on this moment, but i’m just afraid that the support from the russian consulate. maybe, uh, generally perceived as not quite correct, right? and therefore while this question is not ready to discuss. svetlana what is the general situation in latvia we just look at these shots people go people continue to carry flowers like alexander many normal good people. lots of normal and good ones. uh, many understand everything perfectly, the general situat

among the residents of latvia, mr.ous not only for his american citizenship, but also for his financial status, this foundation was laid by his grandfather, vilhelm narinzh. he owned a fish shop in the central market of the region. vilhelm invested the money he earned from trading lassassina in shares of the newly emerging but very promising film distribution company atrium and became a co-owner of the peo nigeris cinema, but at the end of the second world war in 1944, narenzh and his family left for sweden, where his daughter, cree's mother. the girl met the same uldis karinsh, who fled from the offensive of the red army, and married him; from sweden, both families moved to the usa, where the future head of the latvian foreign ministry was born in 1964, studied at a provincial school, where he and his sister were the only latvians, but in dellovere's latvian society, where his parents were activists, there were many of these. we demonstrated in philadelphia at the liberty bell against the occupation of the baltic coun

in latvia, people are trying to defend the symbol of victory over fascism, the monument to the liberatorss sharp, which people call alyosha the scale of the natural disaster powerful earthquake off the coast of taiwan with a magnitude of over seven in japan declared a tsunami threat popular actors in the chechen capital, the all-russian festival of national theaters started there, all performances in the original language an attack on an object where prisoners of war are being held, it is now reported that one person was killed, four more suffered massive night shelling from the apu, donetsk was subjected to nato shells. caliber fell immediately in several districts of the city of voroshilovsky as a result of ukrainian aggression, another civilian was killed. he was wounded, there are victims in the petrovsky district. there, the school building and the palace of culture were damaged, and in kalinin, nationalists hit the ambulance station for the publication. ministry of emergency situations received damage to official vehicles rescuers and doctors sleepless night also stood out already e

met every year since independence latvia decided that its history would be different.is a report from 1993, unfortunately, this time the holiday was somewhat overshadowed by the decision of the latvian authorities not to take part in organizing a meeting on the friendship mound, but, nevertheless, a delegation of latvian partisan veterans still managed to overcome the border cordons and take part in the holidays. these are already two thousandth veterans on different sides of history, latvia agreed only to transfer wreaths on the bridge. and a few years ago she banned it , saying that there is a border here. so the flowers must customs clearance, although the kurgan is only formally on latvian soil, this point, officially marked on all maps, is the junction of the borders of the three states of belarus, russia and latvia, and here the mound of friendship on which a friend of friendship grows , three alleys lead to it from the side of belarus birch from the side of latvia linden from the side russian oak this place is extremely symbolic only symbols. now we have a diffe

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 lab here 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 thurlow 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 the subject to sanctions throughout the year you the national electronic media council will inform media regulators in other e.u. countries of the decision taken and considers that a simi

no 3 states, latvia, stoney in the through ania, is russia. how do you think this case fits into the bigger picture of how the ball 2nd are they? each countries have been tracing the media. this goes back way before the special military operation that russia launched in 2022 this. this goes back to 2015 at which is when this, this pressure started to build in 2016. for example, lithuania blocked. sputnik locked the channel, the network on line that they pulled their domain name off so that the pressure just began to build and build. so employees journalists were what threatened with prosecution. they were also persecuted, so they were pulled out. they were, they were arrested, taken for talks by our state security agents urged her her filing sign their resignations to stop working for sputnik then you had people arrested. you had journalists arrested for working for russian news networks. this is all in the face of a fact that the european human rights, charter, least the freedom of expression. and the freedom of expression is defined. it is t

what plans does latvia have for ukrainian grain? let's listen. we are very concerned about everything that happens in the war, this is the war of russian colonialism, we know what it is, because we were colonized by russia, the baltic countries and poland were also colonized by russia, the problem that one cannot count on grain exports from ukraine directly through belarus, because belarus. is now under very strong influence from moscow. we have the physical capabilities and, of course , the political will to open our ports for the export of ukrainian grain. if this is possible to implement, then poland plays a key role here. the fact is that we do not have a land border with ukraine, but if you look at the map, you will see that our land borders are with russia, belarus and lithuania. lithuania borders belarus. grain can be exported via the baltic countries, it will be more expensive, but it can be exported, besides, as it seems to me, if anyone is creating difficulties in the black sea, it is russia, concern should be shown in europe, because i

today latvia is a target of russian disinformation. attempt to distort reality here by spreading fake news to sow doubt, confusion. russia's objective, to discredit a new european democracy on its border. and here is one example of what appears to be russian disinformation. this website is called baltnews. it is in russian, it is aimed at ethnic russians across the baltic but it is part of a news organisation which is bankrolled by the kremlin. what kind of stories does it put out? here is one. listen to this. among latvians, it says, adolf hitler is more popular than harry potter. hitler's mein kampf tops readers‘ book choice in latvia. astonishing. so the impression you get when you read this is that in latvia in an eu country nazi ideology is thriving. and this story was picked up and republished by a whole string of other news sites. but is it really true? i'm off to investigate. my first stop is latvia's largest book—seller. harry is here. but i can't find hitler. perhaps the company director can help me. how many copies of mein k

president of latvia, egil levits. it is expected that the roc condemned the adoption of the law in latvia, as well as the actions of the metropolitan of rysa and all latvia oleksandr, who obeyed the decision of his state, and not someone else's meanwhile, the president of moldova, maia sandu, took a course to break the relations of the orthodox church of moldova with the russian orthodox church. once upon a time, this church was under the authority of the metropolitan of galicia. now the metropolitanate of moldova and chisinau is part of the moscow patriarchate. but it has a competitor. bessarabian diocese of the romanian orthodox church. and it was to her that the sanda government handed over the historic building of the kisheniv theological seminary. and so he destroyed a strong center of pro-moscow propaganda in kishenev. in the state. teaching is resumed at the university of theology, which will be led by teachers from romania, active transitions from the russian to the romanian church began. moscow threatens such

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

it turned out that native latvia did not need it, it was a stab in the back.ause she didn't think it was all her art. absolutely not, because they thought that you are who you are , soviet actress, soviet actress, fate prepared a bad ending. very bad, of course, it all started with the collapse of the soviet union, the reaction immediately followed latvian filmmakers soviet film actress with a derogatory connotation, it was said they say not ours, not latvian until recently, just a few years ago. she was called the latvian matter of cinema, she created latvian cinema, like georgian kikabidze, no matter how he was not svyatovsky, like a volunteer moldavian banner of latvian cinema. she was expressed not in words, but in deeds. she went out, they are some kind of strange people in this regard. she is pride pride, world pride, world fame. and this is how i understand which is at the end of her life. they kind of treated her like a beast. and what can they be proud of with them, that there are great writers, composers with a world name, and a world-famous actress

this physicist was one of the founders of the popular front of latvia. lithuania and estonia had similar organizations. >> all three of the major opposition movements in lithuania, estonia, and latvia included people from a broad spectrum. they range from communists to absolutely radical anti-communists, but they all stood together. >> the leader served as independent latvia's first prime minister. he knew the struggle for independence could not be won by force. >> when you've got so many people together, just try to stop them from doing anything. they were very peaceful. they came with nothing in their hands but flowers. just try to do something against them -- it's not that easy. you can answer force with force, but what happens when they are peaceful? that was our policy from the start, the parliamentary pass, a peaceful revolution -- the parliamentary path. >> songs, candles, and prayers took the place of shouted slogans. many of the former dissidents are now serving in government. lithuania's parliament building is a holdover from the soviet era, bu

alexander dubyaga is a citizen of latvia.ies at one of moscow colleges and plans to continue his higher education in our homeland. we have already contacted his mother, svetlana, and we will provide legal and diplomatic assistance in this situation. once again i want to remind you that he is a citizen of latvia in this sense, our capabilities. they are essential limited. and can e, in a nutshell, literally say what he is now being charged with, how formalized it is, so to speak, an offense. well, it sounds terrible, of course, this is the article of the local criminal code 74/1, which is called justifying genocide, a crime against humanity and justifying military action. it is clear, but i understand that our ability to help him is limited, however. we paid great attention, so to speak, to your words, what are we, we are russia, you are the ambassador and our embassy is going to give him all possible help, thank god and thank you for this, but please tell me, how is a diplomat for mikhail valentinovich , and i’m trying to und