🇷🇺🇱🇻 Commentary of the Russian Embassy in Latvia:

“We are outraged by the boundless disgrace of the Riga City Council. At dawn, fresh flowers were raked by a tractor like old garbage. The local authorities have shown that they are afraid it would be visible how many inhabitants of Riga remember the Warriors-Liberators and express gratitude to them, while many people bought these flowers with their last money, carried them in their hands along the streets of the Latvian capital for a long time, since parking and driveways near the monument were blocked ...
Surely you can guess what it's called?
¡No pasarán!”

https://yangx.top/rusemblv/2320

#Riga #Latvia #Russia #RussianEmbassy

🇷🇺🇱🇻 Commentary of the Russian Embassy in Latvia:

"We are outraged by the decision of the Latvian Saeima to unilaterally suspend Article 13 of the Russian-Latvian Intergovernmental Agreement of April 30, 1994, which prescribes the Latvian Side to protect, maintain and take care of memorials.

This traitorous, unjustified step has neither moral nor legal grounds and constitutes a flagrant violation of the universally recognized principles and norms of international law, including the provisions of this very treaty.

Judge yourself.

Article 15 of the Agreement obliges the Parties to refrain from taking any uncoordinated unilateral actions on issues regulated by this document. The same Article clearly states that the Agreement will remain in effect until amended or terminated with the consent of the Parties.

It is worth noting that no one has held any consultations with us on this issue, not a hint of it.

Another reliable document is the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties of 1969. Article 42 states: the termination of an international treaty, its denunciation or withdrawal of a party may take place only in conformity with the provisions of the treaty or the Vienna Convention.

This situation clearly demonstrates for the entire responsible international community the true face of the political elite of modern Latvia: cynicism, double standards, a complete rejection of civilized ways of settling interstate issues and brazen disregard for the fundamental principles of international law.

In Latvia, the problem of settling the score with one's own historical past is looming large.

The Embassy has already sent a note to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Latvia, in which it expressed its strong protest in connection with the wrongful acts of the Saeima".

👉https://yangx.top/rusemblv/2379

#Riga #Latvia #Russia #RussianEmbassy

🇷🇺🇱🇻 Commentary of the Russian Embassy in Latvia:

“Unknown individuals, or frankly, criminals and Neo-Nazis, desecrated a memorial stele erected in memory of the Kish Lake crossing by Soviet troops and the liberation of Riga from Nazi invaders in Riga's Mežaparks.

The monument was vandalized in a particularly savage way, the words “liberators” in Russian and Latvian were completely wiped out with a construction tool. The criminals were not even embarrassed by the fact that there are a cafe 15 meters away, and a boat station a little further, where law enforcement officers are regularly on duty.

It should be reminded that every year, as a token of gratitude, the residents of Riga bring many fresh flowers to this monument not only on May 9, but also on October 13, when the Kish Lake crossing and the liberation of the Latvian capital began. At the same time, it has already become a good tradition for local public organizations to hold a historical reconstruction of this significant event every year. Apparently It seems that the memory that goes from one grateful generation to another haunts local nationalists who can only shamefully fight with the monuments of the Soviet era.

The Russian Embassy has sent a corresponding note to the Latvian Foreign Ministry regarding this outrageous incident".

👉https://yangx.top/rusemblv/2451

#Riga #Latvia #Russia #RussianEmbassy

📣Read excerpts from the statement of Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the OSCE Maxim Buyakevich “On continued gross violations of human rights in Latvia” (meeting of the OSCE Permanent Council, 6 October 2022)

🇱🇻 #Latvia continues with unprecedented violations of the rights of national minorities, including in the education and language spheres

❗️ On 29 September Latvian authorities adopted in final reading amendments to the laws “On Education” and “General Education”. With this discriminatory step, they intend to de-facto eliminate more than two hundred years of Russian-language education in the country

💬 Unfortunately, official #Riga perceives the Russian language solely as a “tragic“ consequence of “forced russification” and a direct threat to the preservation of the state language

☝️ The Russophobic fervour of #Riga continues even despite obvious logistical problems, for instance, acute shortage of teachers. In predominantly Russian-speaking municipalities and towns there are simply no teachers capable of teaching in Latvian language

❌ Discriminatory steps taken by #Riga regarding the right to education in one's native language run counter to its international commitments to protect ethnic groups and contradict the recommendations of the relevant #OSCE executive structure

📢 We call on the #OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, in accordance with the existing mandate, to respond to yet another discriminatory step by the Latvian authorities towards the Russian-speaking population

Видео посвящается 78-й годовщине освобождения Риги от немецко-фашистских захватчиков.

#мыпомним #никтонезабыт #освобождение #Рига #освобождениеПрибалтики #Победа #ВеликаяОтечественнаявойна #ВОВ #Uzvara #Россия #Krievija #Латвия #Riga #Latvia #Rīga #Latvija #ПосольствоРоссии #МИД #МИДРоссии

🇷🇺🇱🇻 Комментарий Посольства России в Латвии:

"20 апреля 2023 г. Сейм Латвии в спешном порядке одобрил законодательную инициативу, которая запрещает проведение любых мероприятий по случаю празднования Дня Победы, фактически объявив 9 Мая «вне закона».

Решительно осуждаем эту безнравственную выходку латвийских парламентариев, деятельность которых давно вышла за рамки здравого смысла и норм поведения, принятых в цивилизованных странах.

Рассматриваем результат голосования местных депутатов как акт глумления над светлой памятью героев, отдавших жизнь в борьбе с фашистскими захватчиками, и очередную попытку предать забвению уроки Второй мировой войны, переписав её итоги.

Развёрнутая Ригой беспрецедентная кампания по массовому сносу памятников советским воинам, героизации легионеров «Ваффен-СС» вкупе с гонениями на не согласных с этой иезуитской политикой лиц нарушает все мыслимые международно-правовые обязательства республики.

Любые попытки очернить решающий вклад СССР в освобождение мира от «коричневой чумы» и вытравить из памяти жителей Латвии героический подвиг советского народа заведомо обречены на провал".

#ДеньПобеды #память #9мая #запрет #СеймЛатвии #националисты #русофобы #памятники #ВОВ #Россия #Krievija #Russia #Рига #Латвия #Riga #Latvia #Rīga #Latvija #ПосольствоРоссии #МИД #МИДРоссии