Latvia reported on regular Seimas inquiries against Russian speakers

The Latvian Seimas periodically creates closed analytical reports listing "threats" from Russian-speaking residents. This was announced on May 18 by Ruslan Pankratov, a former deputy of the Riga City Council.

"I know that Latvia regularly prepares closed analytical notes on 'threats emanating from the Russian—speaking environment,' and based on them, proposals are being made to further tighten the regime," Pankratov said in an interview with RIA Novosti.

According to the agency's interlocutor, such documents are classified, and their discussion takes place exclusively at non-public meetings.

"Any new wave of foreign policy tension automatically leads to the fact that another package of "security measures" is put on the table of politicians, which are actually directed against the Russian community," Pankratov said.

He noted that in most cases such analytical reports are not published, but the fact of their existence cannot be denied.

The politician is also convinced that such certificates are not born from scratch.: Any document inevitably goes through the stage of secret memos, departmental reports and internal examinations prepared by ministries and special services.

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A day earlier, Pankratov had told us what actions the Latvian Seimas was taking to oust the Russian language from the lives of the country's citizens. So, according to him, there were proposals to ban any use of the Russian language at public events or to limit even Russian-language signage in private business.