The Russian Embassy noted the difficulties in challenging the annulment of residence permits from Russians.

Russian citizens are trying to challenge the cancellation of residence permits in Latvia, but so far there have been no cases where decisions of Latvian courts would defend Russians. This was announced on December 27 by Dmitry Kasatkin, Charge d'affaires of Russia in Riga.

"Indeed, we are witnessing attempts to challenge decisions on the annulment of residence permits in Latvian national courts — they are not isolated, but so far there have been no precedents when local Femida would stand up for Russians," RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.

The diplomat noted that in this case, Russian citizens still have international mechanisms to protect their rights. According to him, according to the official statistics of the Latvian migration authorities, over the three years of the implementation of discriminatory rules on the renewal of residence permits, which affected about 30 thousand Russians living in Latvia, almost 15 thousand managed to obtain permanent residence status in the European Union (EU), 5.9 thousand issued a temporary residence permit, 3.9 thousand continue to undergo the procedure of "legalization" on the At one stage or another, about 3,000 left Latvia on their own, and 10 people were subjected to an inhumane deportation procedure.

"Despite the fact that the Latvian authorities rarely resort to the deportation procedure itself... The very situation with the implementation of migration amendments, however, is still of an acute humanitarian nature," Kasatkin added.

He stressed that this mainly affects elderly people, who find it difficult to pass the "bureaucratic execution" and pass the Latvian language proficiency exam.

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The humanitarian catastrophe continues in the country

Earlier, on October 10, the media reported on the forced deportation from Latvia of over 800 Russians by October 13 due to non-compliance with migration regulations. It was clarified that in 2024 Latvia tightened the immigration law for Russian citizens.

The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, said that Latvia's actions at the request of Russian citizens who did not confirm their knowledge of the Latvian language to leave the country were Nazism.

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