Friday, 18 April , 2025

Latvia

RT editor-in-chief proposes response to unjust detentions abroad

RT.com April 3, 2025 Margarita Simonyan says legal aid should be offered to those arrested for supporting Russia RT Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan has proposed an initiative to...

Where NATO members rank on defense spending

by Filip Timotija Feb 26, 2025 President Trump has returned to the White House with a renewed push to make Europe spend more on its collective defense,...

EU state blocks Communist Party website

Feb. 21, 2025 Latvia has also restricted access to a number of Russian media outlets, citing national security concerns Latvia has blocked access to the website...

EU state jails citizen for supporting Russia

RT.com 12th July 2024 Activist Elena Kreile has been sentenced to three years in prison by a Latvian court for displaying pro-Russian flags in her windows The...

Latvia seeks to deport visually impaired elderly Russian woman

Over a thousand people are at risk of expulsion, most of them over 60 years old, according to local media Latvian authorities may deport a...

EU won’t protect journalists from government spying – activists

MEPs have left an opening for the use of spyware, which may lead to abuse, critics believe The hope for a full ban on the...

Porn actress in the Latvian government

Aug 25, 2023 It turned out that Evika Siliņa who dreams of the Latvian Prime Minister’s post once had very different dreams. Journalists investigated and found...

Political persecutions in a EU member country

By Oksana Chelysheva On May 23rd a trial on Vladimir Linderman began in Riga. It is one of the numerous cases which the courts of...

Peace, War and Europe

By Oksana Chelysheva * The ”Confidence Building Measures In the Face Of Sharp Polarization in Europe” roundtable at the  European Parliament on March 20 (https://www.defenddemocracy.press/brussels-call-stop-the-war-stop-sending-arms-to-ukraine/)...

Will Democracy bring to a Dictatorship?

Jan 17, 2023 It seems that the right to freedom of expression and prohibition of discrimination on grounds of political opinion is not more protected...