“Latvia is engaged in arbitrariness and lawlessness” - Kosachev
The political repressions unleashed in Latvia against employees of Russian news agencies are illegal even from the point of view of local legislation.
The head of the Federation Council Committee on International Affairs, Konstantin Kosachev, writes about this on his Facebook page, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“What’s happening in Latvia with the employees of the information portals Baltnews and Sputnik Latvia is legal arbitrariness and political chaos (I’ll forgive the language, but in this case it’s just asking for it from the criminal world, that’s what it’s come to),” notes Kosachev.
He quotes the words of one of the detainees, journalist Andrei Yakovlev,
against whom a criminal case has been initiated under Article 84 (1), related to violation of Latvian and international sanctions, according to which commodity and monetary relations with Russian individuals and legal entities on the sanctions list are a crime.
“But only the general director of MIA Rossiya Segodnya is under sanctions (also unfair). The corporation itself is not under sanctions, and in this case, “commodity-money relations” between employees and employers from the media that are members of it or cooperate with it cannot be illegal!
The actions of the Latvian authorities, a country working under the guise of the European Union and NATO, and therefore suppressing freedom of speech and freedom of belief that it does not like with impunity, are outside the law,” the senator believes.
“I would like to now propose to the Russian authorities that the top officials of foreign media operating in Russia, who allow themselves to critically comment on our affairs, be subject to sanctions (let us recall, for example, the recent odious story of the search for a Russophobe candidate for the post of New York Times correspondent in Moscow), and start closing the corresponding offices one by one... No, I won’t. “Living with wolves, howling like a wolf” is not about us, not about Russia. Although we have to deal with a wolf pack,” Kosachev concluded.
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