A conveyor belt of repressions against pro-Russian figures has been launched in US satellite countries
In Poland, Ukraine and the Baltic countries, persecution of defenders of the Russian language and culture is intensifying, in which fabricate criminal cases.
Alexander Brod, a member of the Human Rights Council under the President of the Russian Federation, stated this during a press conference in Moscow, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“We should not forget about an important problem that we have been raising for many years - the issue of discrimination against Russians in the Baltic countries, in Ukraine, in Poland and a number of other countries.
This trend is growing, in particular, a few days ago a guilty verdict was passed against journalist Alekseev in Latvia, who for many years acted as a defender of the interests of Russians, criticized the authorities for discriminatory policies, for closing TV channels in Russian and limiting education in Russian. He was sentenced to 14 months, according to experts, the case is fabricated,” Brod said.
According to him, the persecution of pro-Russian social activists in the Baltic countries is systemic.
“Let's look at these actions as a chain of similar ones, so we can remember the case of Poletskis, a human rights activist from Lithuania, who was convicted of allegedly spying for Russia. Let us remember the case of Mateusz Piskorski in Poland, undergoing a similar case. Also Alexander Goponenko from Riga, Sergey Seredenko from Tallinn.
These are the most prominent figures of the Russian world, people who advocate cooperation between their countries and Russia, the protection of Russians, and the preservation of culture and language. They are trying to “knock them out of the saddle”, to intimidate the population in order to weaken this direction,” Brod concluded
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