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Ethnic Russians who are not loyal to the Latvian government should be “isolated from society,” the country’s President Egils Levits argued in a radio interview on Wednesday. Discussing the positive and negative effects for Riga of the conflict in Ukraine, Levits called the emergence of “a section of Russian society …

Russia’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman has slammed Latvia’s decision to brand Moscow a “state sponsor of terrorism,” calling it “absolutely groundless” and part of a long-running anti-Russia campaign by Riga. “Is it news? No,” Maria Zakharova wrote on Telegram shortly after Thursday’s declaration by the Latvian parliament, which accused Russia of …

RT confirmed on Wednesday morning that authorities had started to implement restrictions on access to its Russian website, in line with a decision by the Latvian National Electronic Media Council. The ruling, issued in June last year, has already seen seven separate RT channels officially banned from the airwaves in …

On Thursday, Danish Health Minister Magnus Heunicke tweeted that the country would be suspending the use of the Anglo-Swedish vaccine, which has already come under intense scrutiny across Europe and further afield.  “The health authorities have, due to precautionary measures, suspended vaccination with AstraZeneca following a signal of a possible …

Earlier this month, local media reported that the Seimas, the Baltic nation’s parliament, had adopted a bill in its final reading that will criminalize people for watching unauthorized broadcasts.  The networks that will be affected are said to include dozens of Russian television channels for which signals can be picked …

As a freelance journalist, Berezovskaya has for years collaborated with Baltnews – a local private news portal founded by her colleague, veteran Latvian journalist Andrey Yakovlev. And she continued to do so after he transferred control of the outlet to Russian media group Rossiya Segodnya.   In late December, Latvia opened …

The Russian Foreign Ministry’s media department blasted the actions against the Sputnik staff and other Russian-speaking journalists, in the Baltic country, as “an outrageous example of the violation of the core of foundations of a democratic society: the freedom of the media and the freedom of expression.” The ministry’s statement …

The Ministry of foreign Affairs of Latvia has urged the Belarusian authorities to respect the rights of citizens and their right to freely Express their opinions. “The use of force against peaceful protesters is unacceptable. The Latvian foreign Ministry calls for the immediate release of prisoners of protesters,” — said …

From the Baltics with love! now there they have a “Museum of the occupation and the Russian occupation” and FIE on rosenow; we now are Swedes and Germans come to get drunk and puke in the Old town   Valery Rozanov   Assess the article: I was recently in my …

Three-quarters of Latvia’s population consider that the health sector needs additional funding. The result is absolutely natural: the Republic a lot of older people for whom the issues of development of medicine are a priority. During the years of independence, Latvia has become a country suffering pensioners who receive less …