In Latvia, Sympathy Not Only for Putin, but Also for Pushkin Has Become a Crime
NEW – August 17, 2022 Vladimir Linderman (Abel) is one of the most prominent representatives of the human rights movement in Latvia, the organiser of referendums…
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How the Latvian Führer Persecuted Russians, Repealed the Constitution, and Why the USSR Came to the Baltics
NEW – August 14, 2022 On the night of May 15-16, 1934, the parliament and every single political party in Latvia disappeared, and Kārlis Ulmanis had…
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Seeking Political Asylum in Russia: Another Activist Escaped From Latvia
NEW – July 21, 2022 “They threw me on the floor, twisted my arms, handcuffed me, and started hitting me. They even stood on me.” The…
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The Blockade of Kaliningrad: How Russia Can Punish Lithuania
NEW – June 19, 2022 The “run or die” game has become fashionable among teenagers now. The rules are simple – run as close as possible…
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5,000 Riga Residents Walked Through the City “For Liberation From Soviet Heritage”
NEW – May 21, 2022 The previously announced march “For Liberation from Soviet Heritage” took place in the centre of Riga, reports mixnews.lv. According to police…
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NATO in the Baltics, Simulating War With Russia
Translated by Ollie Richardson & Angelina Siard 23:59:36 24/10/2016 Ntv.ru NATO is developing new large-scale manoeuvres at the borders of Russia, and today they entered an…
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Latvian “Rat”: Possible Name of Motorola’s Killer Revealed
Translated by Ollie Richardson 15:31:49 19/10/2016 Antifashist The direct executor of the resonant murder of the commander of the DPR militia Arseny Pavlov, known as Motorola,…
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Time for Everyone to Choose Where to Go – in the Light or in the Darkness
Translated by Ollie Richardson & Angelina Siard 02:12:38 12/10/2016 Stoletie.ru After the death of her father Mikhail Tal, a world chess champion, his only daughter Zhanna…
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Latvia Celebrated “100 Years of Independence” with Sweeping Repression
Translated by Ollie Richardson & Angelina Siard 18:31:0901/01/2019 lv.sputniknews.ru The cases of parents, the case of the journalists, and the case of a professor: the results…
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Josef Koren: Nationalists in Latvia Educate Young People in the Spirit of Nazism
Nationalists raise young people in the nationalist-radical tradition that Latvia is a land of Latvian people and no one else has the right to raise their…
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It Was “Our” Coal, Ust-Luga Took It: Latvia Has a “New Normality” in Transit
The new milestone for the Latvian transit sector is 25 million tons of cargo per year, said Minister of Transport Tālis Linkaits. Minister of Transport Tālis…
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Latvia Recognised Anti-fascist Beliefs as a Criminal Offence
On September 8, the Riga District Court confirmed the decision of the Vidzeme District Court that human rights activist and scientist Aleksandr Gaponenko committed a criminal…
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Vladimir Linderman: Latvia’s Missing Night Vision Devices Should Be Sought in the “Azov” Battalion
Translated by Ollie Richardson & Angelina Siard 23:06:4407/01/2019 lv.sputniknews.ru The night vision devices that disappeared from an army warehouse may have been handed over or sold…
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The Experience of Italian Fascists in Assimilating National Minorities
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…
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Latvia Wants to Approach 30th Anniversary of “Independence” by Eliminating Everything Russian
New steps towards Russian assimilation in a EU and NATO member state From June 29th to July 1st, the NATO Ramstein Alloy aerial exercise took place…
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Aleksandr Gaponenko: Dialogue About Punctuation and a Letter to the Council of Europe Made Me an “Agent of the Russian Federation” in Latvia
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…
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Aleksandr Gaponenko: The West Seeks to Reduce the Earth’s Population
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…
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A Latvian Court Sentenced “Russian Spy” Oleg Burak to 15 Years in Prison
On August 17th, the Latvian court handed down a verdict against a former high-ranking employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the state Oleg Burak,…
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The New Latvian Government Was Appointed by Washington
Translated by Ollie Richardson & Angelina Siard 14:10:0931/01/2019 fondsk.ru Krišjānis Kariņš received the mandate of the White House to govern Latvia The four-month epic connected to…
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The Dregs of Independence: What the Baltic States Have Come to After 30 Years of Economic Autonomy
By the early 1990s the Baltic Republics had modern manufacturing and energy industries, quality roads, and well-equipped seaports. November 27th marked the 30th anniversary of the…
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How Your Industry Will Be Killed: A Memo To Belarusians
Recently, the last behemoth of the Soviet industry in Latvia, the Riga Car Building Plant (RVR), declared complete and final bankruptcy. You probably have heard of…
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Port Fiasco: Which of the “Baltic Sisters” Has a Chance to Escape?
The Baltic economy is on the edge of the abyss. Moscow endured the Russophobic policy imposed by the three former Soviet republics for decades until it…
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How Russophobic Latvian Deputies Try to Prosecute Russian Language Defender Aleksandr Gaponenko
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….
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The Same Awaits MAZ and BelAZ: How Latvia’s No. 1 Plant Was Killed
In my previous story, I explained on my fingers how the Riga Car Building Plant died. Now I will tell you how the electronic industry giant…
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Poroshenko Met by Anti-War Protesters in Latvia
Translated by Ollie Richardson & Angelina Siard 19:40:05 05/04/2017 newfront.info Residents of the capital of Latvia reminded the President of Ukraine Petro Porosheno about his election pledge to…
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Russian Historian Explains the “Demonisation” of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact in the Baltic States
The authorities of the Baltic states demonise the 1939 Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact (Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact) to justify their legitimacy, said the Head of the Scientific Department of…
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Members of Latvia’s “National Alliance” Party Cooperate With Ukrainian Neo-Nazis
Members of “National Alliance” work closely with Ukrainian ultra-right extremists, reports the “Re:Baltica” center of investigative journalism. They are united by the idea of Intermarium, an…
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The Case of Aleksandr Gaponenko: Why Latvian Adherants of Nazism Want To Jail Me
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…
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Forest Brothers: NATO Propaganda Video Openly Glorifies Baltic Nazi Collaborators
Translated by Ollie Richardson & Angelina Siard 00:01:49 13/07/2017 ru.sputniknewslv.com/politonline.ru On the official page of NATO on Twitter the movie trailer in English for “Forest brothers. Fight for…
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Political Scientist Einars Graudins: How the West Plundered Latvia
Even narrow-minded Latvians have realised that the European Union and other Western countries robbed Latvia and its residents, having treated them like natives, taking for themselves…
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“Looking into the Barrel, I Saw Severed Male Heads in It”: The “Feats” of the Latvian SS in Belarus
In 1956, the expatriate military-historical magazine “Chasovoy” published an article written by a former special missions officer from the HQ of the Russian Liberation Army, commissioned…
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For the “Russian Lives Matter” Meme in Latvia, One Faces Four Life Sentences
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…
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“Kill and Cut Them, Like I Did in Iraq”: Latvian Mercenary’s Recipe for Ukraine’s Victory in Donbass
Translated by Ollie Richardson & Angelina Siard 23:30:01 20/08/2017 antifashist.com A Latvian mercenary who fights on the side of Ukraine against the LDPR appeared in the…
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In the European Parliament the “Nazi and Communist Regimes” Were Equated to Each Other
In Strasbourg on September 19th European Parliament deputies adopted a resolution at a regular session “on the importance of European remembrance for the future of Europe“,…
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Aleksandr Gaponenko: The Caterpillar Tracks of Totalitarianism in Latvia
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…
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Mass Arrests of Russian Journalists Took Place in the Capital of Latvia
In Latvia, the name of another journalist who was detained, searched and interrogated on the evening of December 3rd was announced — this is Sergey Melkonov…
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Latvian Journalist Reveals Europe’s Attitude Towards Ukraine’s Problems
Translated by Ollie Richardson & Angelina Siard 16:14:33 27/10/2017 golospravdy.com On October 25th on the live broadcast of the website “Golos Pravdy” and the YouTube channel…
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Latvia’s Minister of Defence Called SS Legionnaires the Pride of the Country and People
The Minister of Defence of Latvia Artis Pabriks told journalists on September 27th that Waffen SS legionaries are the pride of the Latvian people and state….
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The First Time a Person Is Being Judged in Latvia for Cooperation with Russia: About the Trial of Gaponenko
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…
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How to Make Biomass Out of Individuals
I have long been looking for words to describe the behaviour of Latvian journalists who did not respond to the detentions and persecution of their Russian…
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Pickets in Support of the Detained Russian Human Rights Defender Aleksandr Gaponenko Took Place in Four Capitals
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…
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A Year of Prison Because of a Referendum on the Russian Language in Latvia
On October 8th a regular hearing of the Vidzeme court took place. At a hearing the prosecutor made an accusation concerning my now five-year-old publications on…
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“Intermarium” of Adherents: Latvian and Ukrainian Nazis Predict the Collapse of the EU
In early January torch marches were held in Kiev and a number of other cities of Ukraine in honour of the birthday of the idol of…
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There Is No Freedom of Speech in Latvia and There Will Never Be
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”….
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A March Took Place in Riga Against the Closure of Russian-Language Schools
Translated by Ollie Richardson 13:34:38 02/06/2018 politnavigator.net On June 2nd about 5,000 people marched on the streets of Riga in defence of Russian schools. People protested…
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“You Can’t Jail Everyone!”: How Human Rights Defender Aleksandr Gaponenko Continues To Be Tried in Latvia
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…
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“Sacral Victim Used to Intimidate Russians”: How “Spy” Oleg Burak Is Tortured in a Latvian Prison
Oleg Burak, a former employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Latvia, accused of espionage, described the methods that the State Security Service uses to…
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Part of the Latvian Elite Reacts Hysterically To the Deteriorating Economy
Ģirts Valdis Kristovskis, Deputy Chairman of the Board of the Port of Ventspils, called on the EU to impose environmental duties on Russia for reorienting cargo…
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How Latvians, Estonians, and Lithuanians Appeared
Translated by Ollie Richardson & Angelina Siard 20:30:12 18/08/2018 topwar.ru Now, the Baltic states consist of three countries – Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia, which received sovereignty…
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A Russian Scientist in Latvia Is on Trial for a Thought Crime, Which Threatens 8 Years in Prison
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…
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A US Base Will Be Built in Riga in Secret From the Parliament
The deputy of the Latvian Saeima Nikolajs Kabanovs spoke about the plans of the government of the republic to allocate territory in the suburbs of Riga…
