10.02.2020, Riga.
The co-chairpersons of the Latvian Russian Union (LRU) Tatyana Zhdanok and Miroslav Mitrofanov addressed an open letter to the Latvian authorities demanding that the annual march of Waffen SS legionaries in Riga must be banned, the organization’s Facebook page reported on February 10.
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11.07.2019, Geneva.
The tendency to glorify Nazi criminals in the Baltic countries will help to identify the responsibility of these countries for some of the crimes committed by the Nazis, said historian Alexander Dyukov in Geneva at the 41st session of the UN Human Rights Council, TASS reported on July 10.
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11.02.2019, Jūrmala.
A man who was waving the flag of the USSR out of his window on Latvian Republic Independence Day was punished with a 20 Euro fine. The Riga District Court of the city of Jūrmala came to this verdict, LETA News Agency reported on February 11.
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28.09.2018, Moscow.
Political scientist and leader of the Essence of Time movement Sergey Kurginyan, on the air of the Evening with Vladimir Solovyov TV program at the Russian Channel One, spoke about the reasons why fascism is returning to Europe en masse.
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29.05.2018, Riga.
A protest march against the transition to Latvian as the language of instruction in Latvia’s remaining Russian schools is to take place in Riga, according to the organizer of the event, Latvian Russian Union, DELFI.lv reported on May 28.
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14.04.2018, Vienna.
The Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the OSCE, Aleksandr Lukashevich spoke of a language “blitzkrieg”, that the Latvian authorities are carrying out in their country, at a meeting of the Permanent Council in Vienna.
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07.01.2017, Latvia.
The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Harlem Désir addressed a letter to the Latvian authorities on January 5 urging them to revise their decision to deport Russian journalists Olga and Anatoly Kurlaev, Rossiyskaya Gazeta reports.
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