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Russia Seen Expanding Active Measures and Media Campaign Against Latvia

January 8, 2015

Staunton, January 5 – Riga faces a dramatically expanded Russian media campaign to discredit it in the eyes of Latvians and the West and an increase in the activity of Russian special services against it, according to Maris Cepuritis, a researcher at the Riga Center for Research on the Politics of Eastern Europe. The analyst […]

Peskov Says Ethnic Russians In Latvia Would Revolt If Radical Nationalists Came to Power

November 21, 2014

Staunton, November 21 – During a BBC interview in which he said Moscow wants “a 100 percent guarantee” that Ukraine will not become a member of NATO, Vladimir Putin’s press secretary also said that if radical nationalists came to power in Riga and if Brussels recognized that as it did in Ukraine, then “Latvian citizens […]