missy: let's talk about latvia specifically.any nato portions -- forces are present in latvia and are you satisfied with nato's military presence in the baltic nations, specifically given their geography and their history as soviet republics? pres. levits: we have nato military from 10 other nations, 10 other nato nations here, and we have several thousand from others, nato member states, and we have, of course, our own military forces. for the moment, because of a change of a strategic situation in europe, we need more troops and we need to strengthen all of the eastern flank of nato and of course latvia is part of the eastern flank and we will prepare our proposals so that we have more impetus to defend and for the deployment of nato troops in our region. baltic region but in general in eastern part of europe. missy: it is interesting to see nato's leadership make these decisions following president putin's invasion of ukraine that many countries in eastern europe had been calling for for years. we know that baltic nations hav

latvia you militarization.ecessary to once again elementary to shift the focus from internal problems to fictitious security problems? it is easier to manage the population; it does not ask for it, but asks to be protected, that you are creating this issue. i asked a latvian journalist and a politician to an expert on the baltic countries. you and politicians, but are engaged in substituting the substitution of the real for the mythological, the substitution of the essential for the insignificant, and what does it do? and the most successful functionaries in the latvian political market are the most effective, successful latvian politicians. these are the people who do not give a damn about latvia's career. you can do it with it by agreeing behind the scenes by nato functionaries to overestimate the cost of work to expand the landfill to supply feeding. uh, on these, uh, semi-state, semi-direct contracts, that’s why they do it, and people do exactly that, that’s why there is competition in this niche, because h

what is latvia like today? has anyone thought? if not, then short ligbes is a small state in northern europe, after joining the eu and nato in 2004, it was completely deprived of independence with a killed industry. today , just over half a million people live in the country, the population is aging, the birth rate is low, and the working-age part of it is leaving for countries with a higher standard of living, but they have also begun to expel russians. latvia makes money only in the service sector, sprats and riga balsam, but they now sell sprats also according to quotas. aizh balsam is interesting only people from the post-soviet space, because they remember latvia with the russian language, nordic character and friendly. but today it’s different. and i’m aksenia lebedeva with you. hello. if the economy is at zero, you need to feed people an idea, the more toxic it is, the fewer questions there will be, nothing is clear in principle, but it’s very interesting, latvia today, renouncing everything russian, is not moving to nation

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

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

there are many ukrainians in latvia now. you know the exact number. how many numbers are constantly changing. the latest number, which is more or less stable, is about 40,000 ukrainians who were registered or who applied for help to both national and local authorities. authorities, but you know. we also see that there is a constant stream of ukrainians crossing the latvian-russian border, those who are trying to escape through russia and from the occupied territories as well we see that some ukrainians are returning to ukraine , now some are using latvia as a transit country, that is, in fact, the figure that we can call more or less stable is 40 thousand. but do you know about the number of ukrainians who are starting to come to latvia ? it was a bit of a mystery because we saw several hundred citizens of ukraine crossing the border between latvia and russia in the summer and in september. now, for some reason, this flow has stopped and we have a suspicion that it is somehow related to the internal border management of russia and possibly also with t

visa-free regime with lithuania, extended by poland and latvia. the initiative of the ministry of foreign affairs was supported by the head of the belarusian state. visa-free travel with western neighbors was introduced last year. this policy has shown the steady interest of residents of neighboring countries in visiting belarus. despite the obstacles and restrictions from the leadership of lithuania, latvia and poland. we see, without a doubt, sustained interest. they accepted about 405 thousand residents of neighboring countries, also on a visa-free basis. there are a lot of positive reviews from visiting belarus on social networks. naive guests they see a discrepancy with what western propaganda shows about our country. for some categories of citizens of the border regions of lithuania and latvia, in particular pensioners and the poor, trips to belarus are a source of obtaining necessary goods and medicines. these are the videos they share. guests of sausages, a million types, sausages , the same thing, any, look how many types of boiled soup,

latvia cannot yet. latvia started compulsory conscription only recently.t 360 people, not thousands, 360, they played the lottery. now summonses have been sent to the addresses. i am not kidding. but i would also like to recall the words of retired, usually estonian generals, who have recently very often talked about mining fields along the border with the russian federation. and there will be mining. and the protocol of the three baltic defense ministers says that at least 60 fortified areas along borders, well, mainly estonia and latvia with russia, because lithuania is in the kaliningrad region, they will also build it, there is of course a question of funding, and the minister of defense of latvia so funny said, well, we know for sure that russia will not attack in the next 10 years , so we can calmly build our fortifications for 10 years, that is, how then will russia attack what they were juggling before the start of the special operation on february 24, and another interesting detail in this sense, referring, by the way, to wallstreet... what the au

but why is it so important for the people of latvia ? we see in this trend a bad trend these war crimes have not appeared right now and exactly in ukraine ukraine ah there were before in ukraine war crimes were committed for the sole reason that they were not stopped earlier that the war criminals did not answer for this in any way before , neither in georgia nor in fact in 2014 after the struggle in donbas and in crimea." part of the race, it can spread everywhere, if you, its criminals, do not see the consequences, then all this will go on and continue to grow, and we must stop it with all our might. there is simply no other way out. in fact, i believe that the criminals are those who are involved in the committed war crimes, i believe. i am even convinced that they will appear before the court and be punished it will be a little more difficult for the political leaders, those who ordered to do it with them will be a little more difficult , this does not mean that we should surrender. but why then some countries? countries, their gover

latvia giving assistance to accommodate and feed these refugees?res. levits: there are over 3 million refugees already. 2 million of them are in poland. more or less, 10,000 or less that 10,000 in lafayette. because we don't have a direct border with ukraine and we are welcoming ukrainian refugees and all of the assistance which is needed. so we should be ready to have refugees and the locking people welcoming the refugees. because after the second world war, many latvians were also refugees, they came through sweden, germany and immigrated to the united states, there is a big lesbian community. and now there's a second world war messaging. we are welcoming ukrainian refugees and trying to help with all necessary help that they need. missy: how does lafayette plan to reduce its dependence on russian energy supplies and more broadly, how do you think europe can wean itself off of russian oil and gas without jeopardizing the climate change goals that it has? pres. levits: in lafayette, we should not overestimate our dependence from russian energy. ap

but anyway, no, in latvia and l lithuania also. we will work on that. at the same time we are looking for more, more reasonable nato partners' presence in the region because we saw from different military games that organized by very prominent institutions here in the u.s. that we really need to strengthen the presence of nato forces. in the region. not only by number of soldiers on our land, ground, but also by increasing prepositions of the different equipment and ammunition in the region. because in our case, if you speak about possible aggression, the most important issue is time of response. and if we want to shorten this time, we really need higher presence of nato forces in the region and also prepositioning of equipment, technique, ammunition in the region. it will be more shorter, because if we just u.s. decides to help and we are sure you will decide. but anyway, we need many days to transport equipment to europe. it means we need to find solutions. and also will be one of the questions what we will discuss probably during the next nato summit

so, regarding latvia, this is the opening of a second front.ecause since i am observing the situation on this territory. before this decision, mass repressions were carried out. bans on the activities of certain political forces were carried out against russian-speaking politicians. that is, today, even as in tallinn, decide which are always latvian russians, who were always more organized than estonian russians. they will not be able to organize themselves, allegedly about the russian party, which has always been presented to us as our friendly center. consent completely passed in the person of its leader nil ushakov and all deputies e, and them and the city and seven, allatvia and the city duma. she completely switched to the nazi side, being afraid of reprisals, today we will meet, there, an unorganized protest of more than four hundred thousand of the population of latvia, the russian-speaking population of latvia, for which this place is . assemblage point of nations that is, those who come there are russian people. sorry e. i predict the

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

yes, and this post in latvia does not actually have nominal power in the market itself. already managed to distinguish himself more than once, but not in politics during the world hockey championship for 21 years. he was among those who helped to remove the belarusian flag due to changing it to black and white. in our country. a criminal case has been initiated against him for inciting ethnic hatred. and it turns out that the new president is not only unconventional politically oriented, he previously came out and became the first politician in the history of the country to recognize his homosexuality. today , natives of the baltic state have gathered near the consulate of latvia in vitebsk. they were forced to leave, and some even flee due to discrimination against russian speakers, as well as persecution for political opinions supported by activists and belarusians. people are asking seven latvias to observe the principles of democracy and not to be puppets. i believe that the president will have to take it already, so that the people are the deputy, whose political or

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

what do you make of that given, you know, especially the history of latvia and latvia's positions in eastern europe? president levits: so latvia and all other member states of nato, which joined nato after 1990 as democratic states. it was their choice. of course, the principle of independence and self-determination says it is for the state to choose alliance. the whole world knows that nato is a defensive alliance. no one in nato is thinking to expand and to make war against another country. so it was increase of security, increase of peace in europe through ak session -- accession of member states since 1990. i will say if it would not be done, then we would have much more worse situation as now. >> i think the elephant in the room when we're talking about eastern europe and the baltics in particular in this conversation about raesh's intentions, vis-a-vis nato, is the possibility that president putin could decide to widen the war, potentially launch a direct attack on nato nations? and you referenced earlier, latvia's feeling of security. i'm hoping you can elaborate on that. what

what today. represents latvia, has anyone thought?a small state in northern europe, after joining the eu and nato in 2004, was completely deprived of independence with a killed industry. today , just over one and a half million people live in the country, the population is aging, the birth rate is low, and the working population is leaving for countries with higher standard of living, but they also began to expel russians. they make money... latvia is only in the service sector, sprats and riga balsam, but they now sell sprats also according to quotas, and riga balsam is interesting only to people from the post-soviet space, because they remember latvia with the russian language, nordic character and friendly, but today there another thing, i’m akeniya lebedeva with you, hello. if the economy is at zero, you need to feed people an idea, the more toxic it is, the fewer questions there will be, basically nothing unclear, but very interesting. latvia today, renouncing everything russian, is moving not to nationalism and the revival of it

they receive it while they are in latvia.hough they can also legally stay in latvia for three months with valid documents even without registration, so i can’t say the exact number, but it’s definitely more than 20 thousand more than 14 thousand received a work permit in latvia ukraine they live mostly in host families or in some specially prepared premises for this purpose. they live in families, but the municipal authorities of many cities and villages also provide housing , for example, they give away various school premises and other social infrastructure buildings are also used for housing refugees or temporarily of displaced persons, latvia was one of the first countries that provided us with military assistance, you gave us your own stinger anti-aircraft systems, which helped a lot during the defense of kyiv, i am defective do you still continue to provide us with military aid i can answer yes but without any details although military aid military equipment continues to arrive in ukraine that is why my answer is yes th

how the economic war against china is unfolding, how supporters of fascism are honored in latvia, and students are being bribed in the usa to spread unconventional values. today on the air after the panorama. retail chains have extended discounts for vulnerable segments of the population march. signed accordingly. this mechanism is traditionally extended for one quarter, minus 10% for the entire socially significant group of goods, the conditions remained the same, the regulator noted the social responsibility of trade, as well as the commercial interest for the chains themselves, since this discount attracts a flow of buyers. the government continues to control the price situation on the market, but at the same time maintain a balance of buyer interests and retail. if the situation remains stable, then the agreement with... will be extended. the beginning of the year turned out to be good, inflation parameters are within the established standards, do not exceed the established limits that we calculated, and fontanel turnover is growing. that's why.

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

of riot police in belarus, a major international channel was blocked military exercises started in latvia and a big event in the world book publishing house minsk international book exhibition fair, is preparing to surprise and inspire what the organizers have prepared for the anniversary of the forum we will tell. focus on interregional cooperation at the palace of independence guests from russia president led a meeting with the head of kalmykia, batu khasikov, a six-time world champion in kickboxing, but not only sports cooperation is on the agenda today, first of all, an emphasis on the economy alexander lukashenko noted the intensification of contacts between minsk and elista, but a real breakthrough, according to the president, is yet to come, despite the distance of belarus to kalmykia separated by about 2,000 km. our peoples are united by a common history and culture, for example, the brest fortress was defended, including the kalmyk wars, as alexander noted we have always been close in spirit to lukashenko in the spirit of joint history and upbringing, building the foundation on w

what can latvia do to help, first of all, it really helps.ain, uh, all the challenges we had, from defense, deficits to the result of terrible attacks on the power system, i.e. different energies , something and everything. this is really us as much as possible. we see what is happening, it is happening all the time, we always know, somehow we start from ourselves , then we start all the others, and here we are grateful for the advocacy of our baltic friends, it is true, latvia, lithuania, estonia, and also poland, these the states always support the maximum in the european union , everything that we see, we work. with some sanction steps, compromises, this makes a quick victory impossible, because the military infrastructure in the russian federation depends on it, we must do everything to give them the opportunity to produce the amount of these weapons with which they they came to us and they can still come, but the soviets are acting, it is important to press it is important to press partners both in europe and the whole world, this is whe

, too, latvia is preparing airfields where nato landings can be received. and latvia is preparing, well, all the infrastructure that is needed, well, to, to, our allies had the opportunity to help us, and they are also preparing weapons, the armed forces of latvia are also preparing. before that, and for example , once in more peaceful times, the latvian army was, well, it operated on a contract basis, and now, now latvia has resumed conscription, that is, that is... eh, young guys of the appropriate age should train eh, so that eh if we were able to resist russian aggression, we understand that this is exactly what should be happening now in all countries that understand that russia is a threat. quite real, we also know that events are taking place in latvia on a slightly different level, the process of deportation of almost 1,000 citizens of the russian federation has begun, who do not comply with immigration legislation, do not fulfill the requirements set out in the law, and of course that in russia is very indignant about this, how come, please tell me a little more, this is such a

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

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

do not make such statements just like that. military aid to latvia in ukraine in latvia supported thevision of necessary weapons to ukraine from allied countries without restrictions, the head of the ministry of foreign affairs of latvia , edgars linkevich, said that our country, that is, where ukraine should not limit the use of weapons since the weapons are being used to protect against the aggressor , he told the agency, it is not such a market. rita avize. maybe i'm wrong, i'm wrong. i don't read latvian. the minister emphasized that there will be discussions now not about providing ukraine with long-range artillery systems of tanks and an even more effective air defense system, and until then, discussions between nato are ongoing and allied countries and the head of the foreign ministry said that some countries are worried that ukraine will use weapons to break through the territory of russia to protect themselves from the destruction of their energy system. my opinion is that we should give the ukrainians weapons, there is no need to limit their use of these weapons if the goal

here, look, what is happening in latvia is, of course, and not explicable.ough it can be quite explainable within the framework. uh, a new new world struggle for a new world order. seven latvia allowed again with monuments to soviet soldiers. driver throughout the country, including the deputies allowed to dismantle the monument to the liberators in riga the split of society at the construction of a monument, then there was a goal to split society, realizing the soft power of the ussr, then no. so well, maria zakharova , the official representative of the russian ministry of foreign affairs , reacted very briefly and succinctly. she just wrote thief. yes, lucky ghouls well, here it should be noted that the inhabitants of pskov supported those people who, on may 9, came to the monument to the liberators in riga and laid flowers. and these flowers. then, in a completely bestial manner, they swept away with a bulldozer and the people returned again and again laid flowers on the whole carpet. uh, deployed at the monument liberators residents. pskov decided to su

but do you know about the number of ukrainians who come to latvia?s you said through the russian-latvian border, it was honestly a bit of a mystery because we saw several hundred citizens of ukraine crossing the border between latvia and russia in the summer and in september, now for some reason this flow has stopped and we have a suspicion that it is somehow related to the internal border management of russia and maybe also with the mobilization of the population we don't have the exact reason why the flow decreased but i would say that most of these people use latvia and lithuania as a transit to reunite with their families or sometimes to just to return to ukraine, having no other option but to make such a long journey for such ukrainians. latvia can be a transit point, so most of them cross the border and he goes on. there are some who remain, but you see, we do not necessarily require the registration of ukrainians in latvia. if they need any help from the government they usually register they get a temporary residence permit or a visa if they h

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

borders of belarus, and sweden, without waiting for official entry into nato, will send its troops to latvia to contain russia. due to an insufficient number of votes, the lithuanian seimas was unable to tighten restrictions on the issuance of vng by belarus. almost 9,500 victims of hunger and cold injuries. the orange danger level remains in belarus due to severe frosts. preparations for a single voting day are in the active phase. the nomination of a candidate is currently underway. to become deputies, they must submit all documents for registration by january 15th. also already formed rural, city and district commissions. in the brest region alone, 229 commissions of all levels have been created, with more than one and a half thousand members. there are many experienced people who have already gone through many companies, and there are people, well, let’s say, new, the team has been formed, a lot has been done, we can already see that banners have already appeared in the city with... the company is quite actively unfolding in the media , but the main thing is, of course, the candidates th

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

, was due to the bonuses that the european union gave latvia because latvia essentially had nothing producese trade union only so that she, to put it mildly, opposed russia, well, or gadya yes, to put it simply, now the situation has changed dramatically, life has become difficult secondly, if what he is talking about, my colleague, it will start a genocidal russian-speaking population, then i assure you that the russians are really the population. even including factors like fear, that's all. the rest can very quickly show a completely different hypostasis on its own, and do not forget that the border of latvia with russia is, in principle, other strange, but rather ghostly all this, it can outgrow a little, quite a bit, to put it mildly, let's say riots, but good . somehow in a civil war, so rock the government latvia is called for life. now imagine a complete hemorrhoids for the future with some intent at a certain stage. they think that, in principle, it is the intent of some kind of fascist germany to intimidate everyone, and no more, no less, but they did not succeed, apparently, of co

that's what we call them in latvia yes, huge.cross the line demonstration of how it's done was in odessa yeah, you need to burn people, you need to shoot people. and only then these russians. thanks to them for this, only then they can be driven under the bench, how it's done. in odessa , otherwise, the civil confrontation will only grow and will be steeper than in tallinn. because now, against the backdrop of a special military operation, public opinion in europe is inflated. it is the same as in the baltic states and the russians are different. now looking over there, looking at what what is happening in ukraine, they now believe that russia will have its say, and therefore everything began to be raised, yes, it’s easier to understand for a few minutes, and then we will continue. don't miss the fire season on central television. why this year the fox in russia began to blaze in the spring of no scale, this element will reach a hot dry summer if the fire cannot be stopped by the installment war. do you really sign the law on len

there, which i i just have from trips to latvia as a child, i don't believe that a person who lives do this, i don't believe, this is a position, this person just wanted to continue living the way he lives, to believe that our migs will sit down in russians , as they like to say, here are such people, and here... as a result, after the transition period , she was forced to leave the republic of latvia, well, it is such a thing, i think that russia will simply promote it as proof that it is a fortress, which is surrounded by enemies, and these enemies are still tormenting and persecuting the russian language population and russian citizens, you know that now russia is generally developing a... mandatory form of consular registration for its citizens abroad. there will be a change in the legislation, you will be obliged to be registered. and report all your data to the embassy of the russian federation in different countries, i don't know how they will ensure this, but there may be some measures of responsibility, let's say, in case you want to return, well, you will just be arrested

said that you, your grandmother was latvian, but you live there in siberia, then you could come to latviaet benefits and get citizenship. even if you didn't speak latvian there, you didn't know anything . there are, for example, also baltic germans who could leave for germany, that is, we are now stopping this law because we think that 30 years was already enough so that if someone else wanted to move to latvia, let's say yes to their hearts, they could do it now, i don't want this opportunity to be used by people who, somehow , want to do it only because of the war, or simply go west to us, that is, i think that this law will cease to exist , people all- still latvians, that’s it, that’s a check latvian, he lived and lived and then he wanted to join a historical family well, in general, how do we define that he is latvian, yes but if he didn’t want to do it in 30 years israel exists . even in the 48th year, people are going and i and you are not they end with what we differ from, well, the state of israel has palestinians as our neighbors, we have russians, that is, that is, of course, t

uh, well, in general, here i am a citizen of latvia and , uh, latvia in recent years.t 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 here i am somehow wanted to make up. this one, uh, this gap, yes, and , to be honest, i conceived this film for a long time, but i started filming about three years ago and hmm, i recorded four voluminous interviews with veterans, but not a single frame was included in the film, because it's just that events in the twenty-second year 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. how did you manage to put it together? exactly these are unique footage of the destruction of monuments. you took somewhere in the archive, you yourself went to shoot on some or they provided you

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

i am very satisfied with latvia.le in mind: 85-90% of russian citizens love aggression. they love the empire. they love putin . even those who don't like putin support the annexation of crimea and georgian territories. moldovan territories and so on and the like. now i know that we need 85.90% of those 85-90% conscious at the expense of that is already some 1%. half a percent is already units, it is not even tens, and it is necessary to study it specially, it is necessary to use a microscope and study these units. well, for example, leonid gnabzlin. yes, he clearly said that the disintegration of russia, the fragmentation of russia, not the preservation of the army, the cleaning was carried out by israel there 20 years ago, and we know people who also migrate to god's life sentence were condemned in russia as a non-existent crime, so there are a lot of such moments that we see former russian people or current ones, not many, but a certain amount, i assume a possibility , i don't watch a lot of rain, i don't watch a l

latvia does not _ aggressor territory. latvia does not provide - aggressor territory. - aggressor territory. latvia . does not provide the missiles which could strike deep inside russia. we're talking about the and the british, the french, and the british, the french, and the british, the french, and the germans who will not even give their tourists long—range missiles to the ukrainians. these key countries have not lifted constraints upon use of their long—range missiles. what do you say to the ukrainians when they see we have to get this authorisation? absolutely what we say to them is not only do we supply ukrainians with equipment and drones which have a reach as well and at the same time what well and at the same time what we see that we will do to convince our partners to advocate, all weaponry, all equipment could and should be using is the aggressor country in self—defence. fin using is the aggressor country in self-defence.— in self-defence. on that basis i have to _ in self-defence. on that basis i have to be — in self-defence. on that basis i have to be frank

neighboring poland 2.2 times less than in lithuania and almost one and a half times less than in latviaes in monetary terms our defense budget is modest compared to the costs of the same direction of our neighbors. but this is due to the fact that our budget is real and really defensive, it is not inflated by corruption schemes, extortions and, most importantly, plans for a democratic offensive. it is aimed only at protecting the country in the event of an attack. and for protection, feeding it to the level of polish, for example, is not necessary here. as in many areas of life in belarus, everything is decided by the approach. even eu military experts admit that at low cost we have one of the most combat-ready armies of the continent. first, because we have a developed military-industrial complex with most of the advanced military and reconnaissance equipment. we develop and release software for ourselves, our programmers also write software, while the belarusian military-industrial complex does not take anything from what was said during development. but he puts millions of dollars in