
Mishustin’s Appointment – Paving the Way for Putin’s Future Premiership
A few hours after the speech of Russian President Vladimir Putin with a message to the Federal Assembly, in which he proposed a whole package of…
A few hours after the speech of Russian President Vladimir Putin with a message to the Federal Assembly, in which he proposed a whole package of…
The court of the Vidzeme suburb of Riga on December 17th sentenced human rights defender, President of the Institute of European Studies (Riga) and Doctor of…
Constitutional reform has started in Russia. One of the main objectives of this reform is to legally enshrine the changes that have taken place in the…
Professor and human rights activist Aleksandr Gaponenko in Latvia was sentenced to one year of suspended imprisonment under the article “inciting ethnic hatred using electronic media”….
Translated by Ollie Richardson & Angelina Siard 22:22:08 30/04/2018 ru.sputnik-news.ee/tass.ru/politnavigator.net On April 20th the Latvian Security Police detained the public figure, activist of the HQ of the…
On February 7th another session of the Vidzemsky District Court of Riga was held concerning the case of the indictment of human rights defender and professor…
About the release of the new work of Aleksandr Gaponenko. Recently, the Moscow publishing house “Book World” released a book of the famous Latvian human rights…
Translated by Ollie Richardson & Angelina Siard 00:30:0924/01/2019 lv.sputniknews.ru The human rights activist Aleksandr Gaponenko learned from journalists that the court returned his criminal case of…
This photo was taken in Ireland in 1972: a girl firing the weapon of her fiancé, who was wounded in battle against the British Army. After…
Translated by Ollie Richardson & Angelina Siard 22:05:3324/01/2019 Russian Union of Latvia In Europe, like in the US, Canada, and other developed countries, much fewer children…
According to information that arrived from the European Parliament, the Council of Europe has received notification from five of its members that they are implementing article…
On February 21st 2019 at 14.00 a hearing in the Vidzeme court (8 Abrenes Street) will be held [this article was written on February 16th –…
Dear Mr. President, On April 4th, a monument to the Hero of the Soviet Union, Marshal Ivan Stepanovich Konev – the military commander under whose command…
Lawyer imma Jansone spoke to “Baltnews” about the results of the latest hearing concerning the case of the human rights defender Mr Aleksandr Gaponenko, accused by…
The population of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic was multi-ethnic since the moment of its creation. According to population census materials, 72.3% of Ukrainians, 22.0% of…
On November 11th, a new trial start in the court of the Vidzemsky District of Riga concerning the second criminal case in which the Doctor of…
The other day a summons came to the Vidzemsky Court for a regular hearing on June 3rd, and then on June 4th 2020. This is the…
After almost a five-year marathon, the first trial against Latvian human rights defender Aleksandr Gaponenko approached the final stage. He is accused of inciting ethnic strife…
I got up late since yesterday I watched until late the Belgian adventure movie Kenau (2014), about the siege of the Dutch city of Haarlem by…
The problems of survival of the Russian community in Latvia force to reflect on the experience of the confrontation of national minorities with forced assimilation. Many…
On June 3rd there was a regular hearing of the Vidzemsky district court of Riga in the case “Latvia – v. Aleksandr Gaponenko“ with charges of…
The European Parliament demanded that Latvia, Lithuania, and a number of other states ratify the Istanbul Convention prohibiting “domestic violence”… The European Parliament (EP) called on…
In May of this year, a wave of powerful anti-racism protests started in the United States and quickly spread to Europe. A large mass of people…
On December 11th the latest hearing of the Vidzeme court of Riga concerning the definition of me as an enemy of the Latvian people took place….
Recently, the ruling British and American elites in the world are actively planting into the public consciousness the thesis that communism and nazism are manifestations of…
The Conservatives won the UK’s snap parliamentary election with a crushing score. Early next year their leader Boris Johnson will elegantly withdraw the country from the…
The presidents of Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Poland in a joint statement on Thursday put forward demands to Belarusian President Lukashenko, the implementation of which will…
A three quarters of a century after the violent destruction of Nazism in World War II, Europe faces the problem of this criminal practice being revived….
Another presidential election was held in Belarus on August 9th. According to the Election Commission of the Republic, it ended in a convincing victory for the…
Today there was another court hearing concerning the process in which I am accused of inciting ethnic strife, destroying Latvian statehood, and acting in favour of…
Latvian Prosecutor’s Office: Aristotle? No, we haven’t heard about this On October 15th, a regular hearing was held concerning the process “Latvia against human rights defender…
In the case of Aleksandr Gaponenko there are dozens of episodes, but in none of the publications or meetings were signs of crime found. There is…
The other day, my friend, well-known Russian journalist Yury Georgievich Alekseyev, was transferred by the Latvian Prosecutor’s Office from the status of “suspect” to the status…