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Latvia tortures illegal immigrants from outside Europe, reports Amnesty International

13 October 2022

According to Amnesty International, Latvia deters illegal intra-European immigrants from entering its country illegally by torturing them. They are beaten and given taser shocks to their genitals. Contrarily, the red carpet is rolled out for illegal European immigrants, especially if they are (…)

FSB declassifies documents on Latvian crimes during Third Reich

22 June 2022

The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB) has declassified and published on its website the interrogation records of Latvian Nazi collaborators.
These revelations come as the actions of the Banderites in Ukraine are largely glossed over and as those of the Latvian (…)

Russian comment on the 80th anniversary of the incorporation of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia into the Soviet Union

Moscow (Russia) | 22 July 2020

The ruling circles of the Baltic countries continue their attempts to promote a lopsided interpretation of the events related to the incorporation of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia into the Soviet Union 80 years ago.
The Russian position on this matter is well known. It is based on an objective (…)

Right to reply by the Latvian government

14 October 2018

Following the publication on 18 September 2018 of the article by Manlio Dinucci « The new Iron Curtain », the Latvian government, via its embassy in Rome, addressed the following letter to the editors of Il Manifesto. Manlio Dinucci replied and Thierry Meyssan has replaced this exchange in its (…)

“The Art of War”

The new iron curtain

by Manlio Dinucci

Rome (Italy) | 20 September 2018

Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have begun the construction of a new iron curtain which separates Northern Europe in two. The point is to remind people of the way in which the Soviet Union built an identical wall to prevent Central European refugees from fleeing to the West. And yet for the moment (…)

Latvia criminalizes "Russian aggression denial"

21 May 2014

The Saeima (Latvian Parliament) adopted 16 May 2014 fifteen amendments to the Criminal Code. One of them criminalizes the "denial, justification and trivializing of the aggression of the USSR and Nazi Germany against the Republic of Latvia." Offenders could face up to three years in prison.
At (…)

NATO, European Union

Latvian President Rehabilitates Nazism

by Thierry Meyssan

Paris (France) | 16 March 2005

On March 16, 2005, a Waffen SS demonstration took place in the capital of a state that recently became a member of the European Union and NATO: Latvia. Authorities decided to allow it and to repress the citizens who protested. Far from being an isolated action, this event represents the (…)

“On the Restoration of Independence of the Republic of Latvia”

Riga (Latvia) | 4 May 1990

After establishing that the Republic of Latvia de jure is a sovereign country and that by the will of its people it should be independent, the Supreme Soviet ruled:
1. To recognize the priority of international laws over national laws. To hold to be illegitimate the treaty between the USSR and (…)