Latvia | Ukraine Today .org

Category Archives: Latvia

Lithuania to propose NATO provide Membership Action Plan to Ukraine

Posted on April 8, 2021 by RedSquareMaidan 2 comments

07 April, 2021 – Ukrinform https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-polytics/3223102-lithuania-to-propose-nato-provide-membership-action-plan-to-ukraine.html Lithuania will propose that NATO Allies provide a Membership Action Plan (MAP) to Ukraine, thus allowing the country to become a member of the Alliance, according to Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis. He said this at a press conference following a meeting with Spanish Foreign Minister Arancha Gonzalez Laya, who is on a visit

Ukraine & Latvia’s war on Russian language is self-defeating & moronic, given world’s most successful countries are multi-lingual

Posted on March 11, 2021 by foccusser 6 comments

Warning! More BS from the state of Mordor. By Paul Robinson, a professor at the University of Ottawa. He writes about Russian and Soviet history, military history, and military ethics, and is author of the Irrussianality blog. In the 1920s, after its violent exit from British rule, many in Ireland wanted to abandon the use of English. They lost the argument, and the

Latvia Bans Russian TV Host Over Hitler Remarks

Posted on February 18, 2021 by foccusser 2 comments

Latvia on Thursday said it would ban entry to a Russian TV host after he called Hitler a “very brave man” while disparaging Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny. “The glorification of Nazism in any form is unacceptable to Latvia,” Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics wrote on Twitter. На основании ч. 2 ст. 61 Закона об иммиграции я принял решение о включении гражданина

Latvia bans broadcast of 12 Russian channels

Posted on February 9, 2021 by foccusser 3 comments

Latvia has banned the rebroadcasting of 16 Russian channels, including REN TV Baltic, NTV Mir Baltic, Karusel International, NTV Serial, NTV Style, NTV Right, Kinomix, Our New Cinema, Native Cinema, Cinema Comedy, Cinema, KVN TV, Kitchen TV, Box TV and HD Life. The newspaper Delfi reports, citing the chairman of the National Council of Electronic Media (NEPLP) Ivars Abolins, that the

Latvian Prime Minister: Navalny Poisoning Shows EU Must Open Its Eyes About Russia

Posted on September 13, 2020 by RedSquareMaidan 5 comments

Latvian Prime Minister Krisjanis Karins

Brian Bonner: Ukraine’s Friend & Foe of the Week

Posted on July 3, 2020 by foccusser One comment

Editor’s Note: This feature separates Ukraine’s friends from its enemies. The Order of Yaroslav the Wise has been given since 1995 for distinguished service to the nation. It is named after the Kyivan Rus leader from 1019-1054, when the medieval empire reached its zenith. The Order of Lenin was the highest decoration bestowed by the Soviet Union, whose demise Russian

Latvia Bans Russia’s RT ‘Propaganda’ Channels

Posted on July 1, 2020 by foccusser 6 comments

Latvia on Tuesday banned a number of Russia’s RT television channels from being distributed in the Baltic state because of international sanctions against the head of the Russian state television network. Latvia’s media watchdog, the National Electronic Media Council (NEPLP), notably banned RT’s main English-language broadcast service, its Spanish and Arabic counterparts, the RT Documentary channel, as well as the HD

Latvia Arrests Spy Working for Russia

Posted on March 2, 2020 by foccusser 3 comments

Latvia said Monday a citizen thought to be working for Russia has been arrested for trying to recruit a secret service officer to spy for Moscow. “The agent… contacted the Latvian officer to try to recruit him into handing over classified material that could then be used by Russia’s secret services against Latvia but the agent has been arrested instead,” Latvia’s security service

Sanctions on the Spotlight: Disinformation Targets Latvia

Posted on February 28, 2020 by foccusser 2 comments

Disinformation framing Latvia as Russophobic is part of a long-term campaign, this time resurfacing due to implementation of US sanctions. Starting from December, pro-Kremlin outlets have been targeting Latvia and accusing it of Russophobia and of acting as a US puppet and a failed state, new analysis by the Centre for East European Studies (CEEPS) has found. The report analyses the

Russia’s return to PACE has not promoted improvement in conflict in Ukraine – foreign minister’s report

Posted on December 30, 2019 by foccusser 2 comments

RIGA – Restoration of Russia’s voting rights at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has not promoted progress in solutions to the conflict in Ukraine, said Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics in his annual report. In the section on geopolitical situation, the minister said that restoration of Russia’s voting rights at PACE damaged the authority of the

Latvian watchdog bans nine Russian TV channels

Posted on November 20, 2019 by foccusser 4 comments

Kovalchuk is a close associate of Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to media reports. Latvia’s broadcasting watchdog has suspended nine Russian TV channels owned by Yuri Kovalchuk, a Russian oligarch under EU sanctions for his role in Russia’s aggression against Ukraine. Similarly as in Lithuania, Russian channels were previously banned in Latvia due to their content, but it’s the first