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

now zach loses latvia's president durgan off is a member of latvia's anti fascist committee. who is more than a possibility i can't bear to see the revival of naziism a lot i can see it with the naked eye in the waters of the world upsets me most of all is that so-called democratic europe closes its eyes to the revival naziism group of the crew it was. on march sixteenth nineteen forty three during the second world war the laugh-in legion was formed. thousands of volunteers in the country signed up to fight for the nazis. off independence every year on this date legion veterans have been officially committed to hold a parade in central region. in two thousand and five victims are going off and several other anti fascists clad in prison robes to join the weight of marching legionnaires. the police dispersed all the anti fascists and let the s.s. veterans put the flowers at the freedom monument. crosses the. we believe in a free country fascists and their followers have no right to bring flowers to a symbol of the state if the state doesn't see itself as a nationalist want to s

day latvia and nazi germany. during the second world war and of that. the most. of it altogether should. be rather. i'm on board and i. would like to say it's nothing that the languages are the same as they have. your speak latvian the things about it in some rights and that if you're not a citizen. of the trades and the combination of things where you are discriminated against because you're in pure. beauty alex sanz mother is latvian but his father is russian he has a perfect command of both languages. he received an excellent education both as an engineer and as a journalist his son me is a school people. papa tell me what the sentence means. is often at the last when he tries to figure out his math textbook it's written in latvia. the internet translator says it means headline well yes that's a possibility. a country schools were formed in the middle of the past decade. russian textbooks were hastily replaced with latvian ones. now more than half of the subjects in russian language schools are supposed to be

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

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

now the state security service of latvia is working with a bang.st be admitted they really do their job. recently there was a case, i have a friend who wrote that she was a repost and a simple kostya where he congratulated. eh? vladimir vladimirovich putin on march 8, girls, and for this she received 150 public hours of work through the court , imagine, this is our queen, that is, people are afraid to subscribe to you. if you are talking about something correctly, if you are a blogger er, or just repost something on your wall, an alternative opinion. this is, well, it is unacceptable, there is no alternative opinion. here we have such a democracy of double standards, we only allow what, in principle, is on the agenda of the political elite. and how is this explained? do people really not have a question that, well, you are promoting liberal democratic values, pluralism? freedom of opinion , human rights, an alternative point of view. and then bam one single agenda, step left, step right. you know, in fact, our biggest mistake is that we probably mi

yes, if this is modern latvia. just yesterday, evika silina was casting for films for adults, and today, with the light hand of the unconventional president of latvia, renkiewicz, she is already auditioning for the second person of the state. i would like to ask, well, how did you, just recently the soviet comrades came to such a life, what a shame, but by the way, why be surprised if, at the behest of the european union, the latvian authorities are ready to do anything, take away, rob, evict, beat, burn books, demolish monuments , a porn star, a prime minister fits into such a picture normally, what is going on in latvia, why western puppeteers should humiliate an entire state like this and what services should evika silina, the new star of the political olympus for the head of the european commission, ursula fonderlei, perform. i’m with you this evening, i’m maria butina, these are the dolls, the heir of atuti, we ’re starting. i solemnly swear, being this lady, known to the general public, rather kakvita, even t

undistorted form, of course, what is happening in latvia now is a nightmare.you that the president of this country is egils. levit announced on may 20 a procession for the liberation of the country from the entire soviet legacy. i want us to remember this very word heritage, because here we cannot do without curiosities. in the spotlight the sad story that unfolded around the soviet liberation monument. the monument to the liberator of riga from the fascist invaders, at first people carried flowers there, then people did not stop to remove them with a bulldozer. they walked with more flowers. won. you see, the whole area. it was just littered with these flowers, it all ended in fact with dispersal and now, after this, the seimas of latvia terminated the key article of the agreement with russia on the protection of memorial structures, the agreement was concluded in the ninety-fourth year and was aimed precisely at preventing us soviet monuments of the former soviet republics, well, then the riga city council supported the demolition of the story is not over. m

i can probably introduce myself, yes, i am daniel, a citizen of latvia, also a taxpayer in my country. tell your story, the girls invited me to the vivo braslav concert, which happens here every year, as i understand, i had never been there, so i decided to visit and take the girls, so that they wouldn’t go together, as a support to go as men with them, to take them behind the wheel , so we decided to visit in general this festival of vivo braslav, is this your first visit to belarus, no, not the first, i’ve probably already been here about twenty times for sure... we are from minsk mainly as tourists or guests , we went to someone in general on july 26 through the point grigorovshchina passes entered belarus four citizens of latvia: young people, three girls one guy, daniel, polina, anastasia and vladlena, were traveling to a music festival in braslav. during the border crossing, a grand control employee found a small package in the car inspection cabin. and what kind of package do you have here? who? here is the package. service dog positive, she smelled the dog handler called to th

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

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

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

in modern latvia the x. parties and was declared an enemy and spent almost two years behind bars for taking part in the killing of local volunteers who were helping the germans. kannan of was acting on of the situation taken by parties and tribunals in one thousand nine hundred forty three. when radical nationalists came to power after the regime change and their lackeys started a massive campaign against intel fascists 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 and as usual pressures of. ivors garda is leader of a political organization called the national front of lance via the front publishers a newspaper founded by him. had two weekends and during public holidays volunteers hand out free copies to anyone willing to read the paper. its name contains three d's they stand for d. occupation the colonized station and the russification. for a long time dr goddard taught ethics at the academy of culture some of h

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

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

i'm a live journalist from latvia. we were on radio freedom.this was first reported by the adat telegram channel, referring to the data of its informants in europe and chechnya. this adap channel positions itself as the people's movement in the chechen republic against the kadyrov dictatorship, and later the blogger's colleagues confirmed the information about his murder to the russian service of radio liberty, the first information about the possible death of abdurakhmanov appeared on december 1, journalists unsuccessfully tried to contact his blogger brother about their whereabouts is also unknown to chechen human rights defenders based in europe, the police of sweden, where the blogger lived in recent years, does not confirm at the moment does not comment on the report of the murder of e.e. tumsa abdurakhmanov , this is stated in the official response to the request of the editors of kavkaz realiya in february 2020 to abdurakhmanov was already committed in his apartment in sweden, the blogger then managed to disarm the attacker and call the

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

the sphere of soviet interests also included estonia, latvia and bessarabia. the germans were to retain control over western poland and lithuania. ripentrop was strongly impressed by how stalin conducted the negotiations. stalin did not just sign treaty, germany's agreement that we would sign treaties, not attacks. later, stalin would give his own assessment of the treaty with hitler. this would happen on july 3 , 1941, during the days when germany would attack the soviet union. in his radio speech , stalin would say: ask how it could happen that the soviet government would sign a pact during an attack with such people and izmergs as hitler and. people: was there a mistake on the part of the soviet government here? of course not, there is a non-aggression pact, a peace pact between the two states, it was precisely such a pact that germany proposed to us in 1939, could the soviet government refuse such a proposal, i think that... no peace-loving state can refuse a peace agreement with neighboring powers, if even such monsters and cannibals as hitler or ventrof

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

, 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 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

has ever been in latvia.ou live in his house. and every morning you wake up in his bedroom. well, maybe luxury items. this category does not apply to everyone is good. it is known how the nazis took jewelry from the jews before they were sent to death, how they took out paintings and other items from the occupied countries. luxury. how they pulled out the golden teeth from those who destroyed. so the dachas of kosygin's villa for the current president, latvia is a moral cost, so to speak, they do not suffer much, apparently, levits was born in latvia in 1955. his father was jewish during the war. he was evacuated from latvia but the rest of the president’s relatives died during the holocaust, levits’s mother was latvian and she survived the occupation safely, but with the arrival of soviet troops in 1944 she decided to leave with the nazis later, she returned to latvia where she met her leftist father and in seventy-two year. the family amicably emigrated to germany. and in germany, levits studied at the latv

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

rights in united latvia, and then it was renamed to the russian union., i remember it wrong, well it is really pro-russian a pro-russian party can, but are you sure? are you sure that the government will be formed precisely from representatives of non-pro-russian parties , european-oriented parties that oppose russia 's war in ukraine? russian a-a this union russian union there more or less if they are the same there er there will be er the same parties as now and maybe something will change a little maybe there will be some additional and the whole intrigue of these elections er elections who exactly will there is also such a party, the union greens and peasants, and greens, and i don’t know christians, not a representative office, yes, and this union . because he has been for many years somewhere, i think more or less 40 40 years already mervynstok all kind of sports it is a port and this is my hometown and uh it is such a port uh a port city on the baltic sea a and uh and he is like that uh sometimes he is pro-russian he is alti for uh more than 40 ye

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

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

but the price of building materials in latvia has gone up by half. and he doesn't know when it will be finished. the rosenthal is live in a small village in western latvia, set in beautiful countryside. youngest takes the children to school each morning and brings them home again later. but all is not as idyllic as it seems with a population of just to 1000000 latvia is one of the poorest countries in the european union. it's economy traditionally closely linked to russia's. the war has had a disastrous impact on business owners like yon us, m. o 's board, we've always worked closely with business partners in russia and people there always wanted our products back now that's all gone in. got such a sad way. so me anees about lat fears. big neighbor to the east has risen sharply since the start of the war. latvia declared independence from the soviet union more than 30 years ago. but the invasion of ukraine has brought back traumatic memories . he, this the hud via apple car. it feels like the apocalypse, say with him, please him to know if you wake u

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

well, my guest is latvia's defence minister, andris spruds.h the stakes rising, what can ukraine expect from its friends? andris spruds, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me. it is a pleasure to have you. now you are defence minister in a baltic nation, which is one of ukraine's strongest supporters inside the eu and nato. so what do you make of ukraine's risky gambit, this offensive inside russian territory? it was just recently in ukraine, and what i see in ukraine, it's a resolve. it's a determination. it's a resilience. it's a willingness also to take initiative. and what we've seen right now is that ukraine is in a position to take this initiative, that it shows also that the war, of course, is a war of wills, the war of the mindsets. and here, we can see that ukraine also shows and proves that russia has its vulnerabilities. but did you, in kyiv, also get a sense of deep ukrainian frustration with its allies? because it's become clear in the last couple of weeks that ukraine didn't feel able to share any information about this su

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

, 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

they say that he did with the latvian girls what sweden does to latvia and how latvia's erotic exploitsusted. speaking of the baltics, one cannot fail to mention nazism, which is firmly rooted in this land, when the germans came to the baltic states, local nationalists, in joy, began to create their own nationalist governments. but the german leadership did not even allow the thought of allowing local statehood to be restored in any form, these lands were supposed to be cleared of natives and populated by germans. so the national governments lasted a matter of days, but to sweeten the pill the germans. the balts were allowed to hold a procession with national flags and create local police parts that were subsequently used to carry out punitive actions in the neighboring regions of ukraine, belarus and russia, which the real nazis disdained to do for them, the baltic states gladly did strange minions are always characterized by excessive cruelty, this is compensation for their humiliated position, when in 1943 the wehrmacht began to endure defeat after defeat from the punitive police bat

latvia cannot yet.ted a mandatory call just recently, by the way, i couldn’t get 360 people, not thousands, 360, they played a lottery , now summonses have been sent to the addresses, i’m not joking, but i would also like to remember the words of retired, as a rule, estonian generals, who have recently been very there is often talk about mining of fields along the border with the russian federation, and mining will happen. and the protocol of the three defense ministers says that they will also build at least 60 fortified areas along the border, well, mainly of estonia and latvia with russia, because lithuania is in the kaliningrad region, there is, of course, a question of funding, and the minister of defense of latvia said so funny, 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 we were juggling before the special operation began on february 24, and it’s also interesting. we will

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

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

and the same latvia but these sanctions.didn’t bring to me in the port of vanspel, people came up to me russian people and said that these sanctions are great, and we understand why moscow led them, but they hit us because we work in the port of espen and earn 700 lats. it was 1,400 dollars at that time, so maybe moscow is somehow different, but now the situation is even worse and i can answer very briefly. what is the fundamental difference, and the easier it is now, then we were forced to sit on two chairs. uh-huh, you know, yes, on the one hand we defended, but we demonstrated that we are still part of the european family. we have been negotiating with the european union, and the new partnership and cooperation agreement. yes, we were part of the g8, and that's why it was all here with our hands tied. now our hands are tied. you see, we well, this is actually europe's iskanders, and not just about that. yes, yes, we are such a service, we are more inclined to this about the church and the iskanders. that is what people we

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

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

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

ba in latvia is actually a very big problem for latvia. why?ause the mouth is now closed to everyone. the state security services of latvia are working with a bang. and this must be admitted , they really cope with their task. recently there was a case, i have a friend wrote that she was a repost, but a simple post where he congratulated. e. vladimir vladimirovich putin with girls on march 8, and for this she received 150 public hours of work through the court . if you speak correctly about something, if you are a blogger, or just repost something on your wall, an alternative opinion. this is, well, unacceptable, there is no alternative opinion. here we have such a democracy of double standards, we only allow what, in principle, goes according to agenda of the political elite. and how is this explained? do people really not have questions that, well, you are promoting the liberal democratic values ​​of the plural. lism freedom of opinion human rights alternative point of view and then bam - one single agenda, step left step right. you know, in

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

the former mayor of riga, nilushakov, as well as the former presidents of latvia, valdisazalters and andris. bersh, moreover, this is a common practice and the pride of the academy on their website. there is even a whole column of interviews with the president with a belarusian, by the way, not the first. here are footage from a decade ago and so on alexander lukashenko was also asked about communication with his son, and a request for a conversation this year was officially sent in advance. we don’t even think at all from some kind of information wars for children’s competitions in latvia on the net, they strangely don’t raise a fuss because of this, that some children came and took the president of latvia, perhaps they could interview, according to nadezhda bukharova, together with them in belarus was traveling from latvia, five buses crowded with tourists. after all, plus everything for the baltic states, minsk opened without visas. now pupils in a cart back in vitebsk, it is curious that just last year, singers from latvia participated in the jubilee slavic bazaar, the master, by