🇷🇺🇱🇻 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

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

"The local authorities continue to mock the memory of the Red Army soldiers who heroically fell in the battles for the liberation of Latvia and the whole Europe from Nazism.

On May 26, the Jekabpils Regional Duma announced its intention to dismantle the memorial to Soviet artillerymen at Rigas Street, 205 (the same one from the pedestal of which in February 2021 the artillery gun was stolen), to exhume and rebury the remains of the Soviet Army officers entombed at this fraternal grave.

We regard this decision as a flagrant and deliberate violation of the bilateral intergovernmental Agreement on the status of burial places of 2007, which prescribes the Latvian Party to protect, maintain and take care of the fraternal graves, but not vice versa.

Article 4 of the Agreement clearly states that the reburial of the remains can be carried out only upon consent of both Parties. The Russian Party did not give its consent to this.

The Embassy has already sent a note of protest to the Latvian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, urging it to prevent the wrongful acts of the municipal authorities and ensure strict compliance with international obligations.

We are convinced that there should be no condescending attitude towards such initiatives. We are expecting a clear response from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Latvian Republic, based on conscientious observance of the fundamental principles of international law."

👉https://yangx.top/rusemblv/2711

#Jēkabpils #Latvia #Russia #RussianEmbassy

🇷🇺🇱🇻 Комментарий Посольства России в Латвии:

Внимательно ознакомились с интервью президента Латвии Э.Левитса запрещённому в республике российскому телеканалу “RTVi”, в котором глава государства в числе прочего высказывается в поддержку находящегося в разработке законопроекта о лишении гражданства «нелояльных» жителей республики (симпатизирующих России и её внешнеполитическому курсу).

Вот она, цензура мысли во всей красе, в лучших традициях антиутопии Дж. Оруэлла. Впрочем, удивляться нечему: за годы независимости латвийская этнократия изрядно поднаторела в подавлении инакомыслия, в чём мы не раз имели возможность убедиться.

В этих целях здесь широко и без всякого стеснения практикуют такие методы «убеждения», как политические репрессии, запугивание, травля, высылки, занесение «неблагонадёжных» лиц в ежегодные отчёты спецслужб и др.

При этом неизменно одно: объектом нападок раз за разом становятся исключительно представители русскоязычной диаспоры, будь то журналисты, активисты гражданского общества или рядовые граждане.

Нет никаких сомнений, что и эта законодательная новация будет использоваться Ригой в аналогичном ключе.

Это ли не сегрегация по этническому и идеологическому признаку?! Это ли не посягательство на фундаментальные принципы демократии – свободу убеждений, мысли и совести, о соблюдении которых так печётся «цивилизованная» Европа и Латвия вместе с ней?!

Верной дорожкой идёте, господа – к полицейскому государству.
 
#ПосольствоРоссии #Latvia
#Оруэлл #Латвия #Рига

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

"On September 8, 2022, the Latvian Saeima approved amendments to the law "On the Latvian Orthodox Church", which grant it autocephaly.

Riga, in pursuit of the laurels of the "chief fighter against the Russian world," has long ago ceased to perceive the boundaries of the permissible. Aside from the numerous violations of their own legal obligations, which have already become a "byword", the Latvian authorities in a rude and cynical way meddled in the affairs of the church.

Once again, we witnessed the violation by the Latvian authorities of the generally accepted ethical and moral norms, religious canons and their own constitutional law.

We would like to remind that the representatives of the secular authorities possess no canonical right to issue a tomos of autocephaly. It is also the Constitution of the Republic of Latvia which proclaims the principle of the separation between church and state.

As practice shows, national and international law are no longer considered as an argument by the Latvian authorities, who continue to insist that their legislative initiatives correspond to the image of a "law-governed and democratic" state. Now Riga has demonstrated the same disdainful attitude towards the law of religion."

#Latvia #Russia #RussianEmbassy

https://yangx.top/rusemblv/3651

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

"More than two hundred years of history of the Russian-language education in Latvia has come to an end - on September 29, the Latvian Saeima approved in the final reading the transition of Russian schools into the Latvian language.

The ruling elite of the country once again gained its mercenary-minded goals at the expense of the Latvian younger generation, having denied children the right to a comfortable learning environment. Instead of taking advantage of the country's natural bilingualism, politicians stubbornly continue to fight the "wrong" language, destroying the Russian culture here.

It is a shame that the Latvian authorities are unable to understand that the upbringing of patriots and citizens loyal to Latvia is really hindered not by education in the Russian language, but by the complete disregard for the vital needs and interests of the country's population by its leadership."

#Latvia #Russia #RussianEmbassy

https://yangx.top/rusemblv/3788

📣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