The State Duma complained to the world about Russophobia in the Baltics
The State Duma of the Russian Federation today adopted a statement on the inadmissibility of the repressive policy of the leadership of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia towards the Russian-speaking population.
The document will be sent to the world’s parliaments and international organizations, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“The State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation strongly condemns the repressive policy of the leadership of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia towards the Russian-speaking population,” the statement says.
“Why the Baltics, these three countries? After all, today there is Russophobia and persecution of our people everywhere, seizures of property and real estate, children cannot go to schools and kindergartens. This happens everywhere, but in these countries that are next to us, it happens frenziedly and with impunity,” said Leonid Kalashnikov, a deputy from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation who presented the draft statement.
Representative of A Just Russia, Alexey Chepa, proposed applying economic measures to the Baltic countries.
“Calls for the expropriation of the property of Russian investors are becoming louder and louder in Tallinn, Riga, and Vilnius. If such proposals are implemented, we need to take protective measures in the economic direction in response. For example, a complete cessation of transit traffic through the Baltic ports, a ban on the purchase of goods produced there,” Chepa said.
Representative of the New People faction Oleg Leonov expressed hope that Russia’s relations with the Baltic countries will soon improve, but United Russia member Vyacheslav Nikonov objected to him. He believes that this is practically impossible because the three countries are under external control of the West.
“We have it written: the West turns a blind eye to... The West does not close its eyes to anything. The West does it all. Everything that is done there is done absolutely with the consent of the Western powers. Just as before Peter the Great in Estonia there was not a single building of local residents above ground, so now there is not a single prominent politician, expert, or journalist who does not work for the CIA or the State Department. There is not a single enterprise without a foreign owner, and there is no happiness either.
The West forces these countries to supply weapons to Ukraine more than anyone else as a percentage of their capabilities. We will never forget or forgive them for this. One can, of course, think that one day we will normalize relations with them, but this will only happen when they become different,” Nikonov said.
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