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Old December 30th, 2014 #21
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Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics says that Riga is seeking EU funding in order to launch a Russian-language television network for Russian speakers in his country and the region so that they will not turn to Moscow channels that are full of misinformation and anti-Western propaganda.

The new channel, he says, will feature not only news but also entertainment programming because “people do not need news 24 hours a day.” That reflects his understanding that people often watch news on the same channels they get their entertainment – which is one of the advantages Moscow TV now has over Western outlets which broadcast only news.

Rinkevics adds that Latvia is prepared to work with neighboring countries and with the European Union on the service and is quite prepared to have it operate under EU direction. Estonia is a potential partner in this: its parliament recently approved 2.5 million euros (US $3 million) to start such a television channel next September.

These Latvian and Estonian initiatives reflect the increasing understanding of governments there and elsewhere in the region that Moscow has used its advantages in television broadcasting to shape opinion among Russian speakers in neighboring countries who in many cases prefer Russian television to national competitors.

Since the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the post-Soviet states have put most of their effort into producing non-Russian language broadcasts, and at least some of them, the Balts in the first instance, have been reluctant for national reasons to produce massive amounts of programming in what they still reasonably view as the “imperial” language.”

But Moscow’s success in forming opinion in Ukraine via its television broadcasts has prompted them to change their minds and to recognize that the problem is not the language of broadcasts but their content. Russian-language programming can be accurate, informative, and supportive of the independence of their countries, even if Moscow TV now is anything but.
http://www.interpretermag.com/latvia...ge-tv-channel/
 
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RIGA — Decades after their destruction by the Nazis, Latvia’s lost synagogues have been recreated in detailed model form as part of efforts to recapture and document the once-rich Jewish life in the Baltic country.

There were 210 synagogues in Latvia before World War Two, with styles ranging from ornate neo-Renaissance and neo-Romanesque buildings to humble wooden structures.
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Latvia’s Antisemitism is a ghost that makes European headlines every March. This week, a Latvian MP of the ruling coalition bloc, Kārlis Seržants, was on the record on Tuesday, March 15, making profoundly anti-Semitic comments.

In an interview with the Russian language public radio LR4, he said that “clever Jews” were responsible for some of the nation’s main problems. Clever Jews who operate “on the edge of the law,” referring to prominent Russian minority activists who, he believes, are Jewish. “I am not a chauvinist, absolutely not,” he specified “and “that is exactly why I am telling that being of Jewish ethnicity means being very smart.” While Russians might also be smart, he specified that Jews are “especially smart.”
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Nationalist party wants to make March 16 an official memorial day

The right-of-center National Alliance wants to make March 16, the controversial date when parades are staged to honor the Latvian Waffen-SS divisions, into an official memorial day, party head Raivis Dzintars told LTV March 8.

"We shouldn't be ashamed to honor Latvian freedom fighters," said Dzintars, after saying that, for a time in the 90s, March 16 was indeed a memorial day.

The party intends to submit amendments to the official calendar to the Latvian parliament within the next few days.

https://eng.lsm.lv/article/politics/...l-day.a270632/
 
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Saeima adopts amendments on ban of totalitarian symbols

On June 4, the Saeima adopted amendments to the Law on the Security of Public Entertainment and Celebration, related to the ban on the use of symbolic accessories used by the former USSR and Nazi German Armed Forces and Organs of Law and Order in public events, said Saeima Press service on June 4.

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Saeima supports in principle payment of EUR 40 million compensation to Jewish community for property lost during Holocaust

RIGA, Sept 30 (LETA) - Saeima today supported in principle a bill on the payment of EUR 40 million compensation to the Jewish community for properties lost due to the Holocaust; according to the bill, the compensation will be paid in ten installments over the next ten years.

61 MPs supported the bill, while 13 voted against.

The bill states that private properties were nationalized in Latvia during the occupation. In turn, the Nazi regime implemented the Holocaust and almost completely destroyed integral part of Latvia's society - the Jewish community. During the Holocaust, Jewish residents, their children, and those who worked at Jewish public and religious organizations were exterminated, the bill emphasizes.

The legislation says that the Latvian state is not responsible for the Holocaust during the occupation of Latvia, as a result of which several historical Jewish religious and community organizations have no successors, and neither is the state of Latvia responsible for the actions of the Soviet occupation regime.

During the Holocaust, 90 percent of Latvian's pre-war Jewish community was destroyed, which prevented the Latvian Jewish community from fully recovering the property it owned on June 16, 1940. These properties have become property of the Latvian state. The compensation provided for in the legislation is Latvia's goodwill compensation for this unrecovered property.

The purpose of the law is to restore justice and provide support for the Latvian Jewish community by compensating in good faith the cadastral value of property not recovered by the community, in order to eliminate the historical consequences of the Holocaust by the Nazi totalitarian regime and the Soviet totalitarian regime's actions.

According to the bill, EUR 4 million will be paid from the state budget annually from 2023 through 2032. The amount is calculated according to the cadastral value of the property owned by the Jewish community on June 16, 1940, which has not been returned to the community, and the cadastral value of which was approximately EUR 47.8 million on December 31, 2018.

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Jan 12 (Reuters) - The Baltic States are talking to NATO allies about increasing military deployments on their soil to deter Russia, Estonia's prime minister told Reuters on Wednesday, and NATO's chief said any Russian attack on Ukraine would spur a decision.
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AEROSPACE & DEFENSE JANUARY 21, 2022 9:29 PM UPDATED 6 HOURS AGO

UPDATE 1-Baltic States sending anti-armour, anti-aircraft missiles to Ukraine


By Andrius Sytas

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VILNIUS, Jan 21 (Reuters) - NATO members Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania will provide Ukraine with U.S.-made anti-armour and anti-aircraft missiles, their defence ministers said in a joint statement on Friday evening.

“Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania and their Allies are working together expeditiously to hand over the security assistance to Ukraine,” the statement said.

Estonia will send Javelin anti-armour missiles, and Latvia and Lithuania will send Stinger anti-aircraft missiles.
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Baltic states 'working closely together' to prepare for Russian gas cut


By Andrius Sytas

Feb 4 (Reuters) - Energy companies and governments in the Baltic states are cooperating to prepare for a possible cut in Russian natural gas supplies amid tensions over Ukraine and concerns about gas supplies to Europe.

Russia is Europe’s biggest provider of natural gas, and Western countries are worried that already strained supplies could be interrupted in the event of a conflict between Russia and NATO over Ukraine.
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If the Russian gas supply gets interrupted, the Baltic states will rely on the Lithuanian LNG import terminal and a Latvian gas storage, Latvian Prime Minister Krisjanis Karins said at the news conference.
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Old February 10th, 2022 #32
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Latvia to Reimburse Jewish Community for Properties of Holocaust Victims

“This law cannot bring back a destroyed community or a destroyed synagogue,” said a chairman of a group backing the effort. “But what it can do is recognize what happened.”

Feb. 10, 2022

The 19th-century synagogue in the southern Latvian town of Akniste has become a firefighting depot. An older synagogue, with wooden vaulted ceilings, is now a community center. One has been turned into a church.

After the Latvian Jews who owned, managed and frequented the buildings were killed during the Holocaust, the state took them over.

Now, 80 years later, the Latvian Jewish community will be reimbursed for hundreds of buildings that were expropriated during the war and never returned.

On Thursday, the Latvian Parliament gave its final approval to a law that awards 40 million euros, about $46 million, to the Latvian Jewish community “to eliminate the historical unjust consequences” resulting from the Holocaust and activities under Soviet rule, according to a news release after the bill was approved.

“This law cannot bring back a destroyed community or a destroyed synagogue,” said Gideon Taylor, a chairman of the World Jewish Restitution Organization, one of the main promoters of the bill. “But what it can do is recognize what happened, and this is why it is important.”

In 1940, the Soviets invaded Latvia and nationalized Latvians’ properties. Shortly after, Nazi Germany occupied the country and killed 90 percent of its 93,000 Jews — 25,000 of them in a two-day mass shooting in the Rumbula forest in 1941.

When the Republic of Latvia became independent after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, property was denationalized and Latvians reclaimed it. But most Jewish owners had been killed in the Holocaust, and many of their homes, baths, slaughterhouses, orphanages and synagogues became state property.

“It was very painful,” said Dmitry Krupnikov, whose grandfather was killed by the Nazis in the Rumbula forest. “Now we can finally turn the page.”

Mr. Krupnikov, who heads the Latvian Jewish Community Restitution Fund, which will receive the money, said the bill was a belated victory after years of efforts and negotiations. Opponents of the legislation had argued that if Jews received compensation, it should also be given to all of the other communities affected.

But to the supporters of the legislation, which included the American and the Israeli governments, the bill was not a statement about their suffering but a reimbursement for property that belonged to them.

When the bill landed in Parliament in September, Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken referred to it on Twitter as “a measure of justice for Holocaust victims and their families by addressing property stolen during that dark period.”

Mr. Krupnikov said the funds would be given to Holocaust survivors, as well as used to refurbish and maintain community buildings and to promote memorial and educational activities.

The repayment amount was calculated based on the current assessed value of about 250 buildings and lands that once were communal property of the Jewish community or that lacked an heir.

Among them are an elegant building in the capital, Riga — once home to a famous rabbi and the headquarters of the local Jewish intelligentsia, now an office building; a Jewish doctor’s villa by the forest, now divided into apartments; and a four-story nursing home now in a state of disrepair that was recently sold to private investors.

Most European Union nations have established formal procedures to return property seized during the Holocaust. Latvia gave back most private properties that were claimed by owners or heirs, and in 2016 it returned to the Jewish community two synagogues, two schools and a hospital. But the country had so far not provided reimbursement for many communal buildings that were expropriated.

Elie Valk managed to recover his grandparents’ house in Latvia, but buildings like the school where his grandfather taught Hebrew and religion, before the Nazis took him to a forest and shot him, were destroyed or lost.

Mr. Valk, who is the chairman of the Association for Latvian and Estonian Jews in Israel and has campaigned for the legislation for years, said he was happy that part of the funds would be used to commemorate the Latvian Jews who died in the Holocaust.

“It’s our memories and our roots,” he said, but added that the funds would not be used to build new Jewish schools, because the Latvian Jewish population has shrunk to about 10,000 people.

“There is nobody for whom to recreate,” he said.

Inna Michelson, a Latvian Holocaust survivor, still remembers her synagogue in Riga, which the Nazis burned down. She recalls the medical equipment the Nazis confiscated from her grandfather’s clinic, and her family’s Schroeder grand piano that a soldier started playing as the Gestapo escorted her out of bed and arrested her.

But after rebuilding her life in Israel, she said, she does not see why reimbursement for that, or any property, should be focused on the Jewish community in Latvia.

“The Jewish story there has ended, it’s over,” she said, adding that the law came much too late. “Now, so many years after the war, why are they dealing with it now?”

But local politicians say that confronting the country’s past is essential for Latvia to look ahead.

“It was a moral obligation,” said Martiņs Bondars, the chairman of the Latvian Parliament’s budget committee, who presented the law before the government body. “Only a country that is able to deal with its past has a future.”

Mr. Bondars said that the fund was “good-will reimbursement” because Latvia was not responsible for the atrocities committed in the country by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. The Latvian Republic, he said, did not exist then.

Some Israeli newspapers have picked up on this language, which reflects the terminology used in the legislation, pointing out that the Latvian police were known to have helped the Nazis perpetrate the genocide.

But to the Jewish groups that promoted the law, taking responsibility for the Holocaust 80 years later was not the central issue.

“It’s just a restoration of historical justice because the buildings belonged to the Jewish community,” Mr. Valk said. “We don’t want to say the Latvians are guilty.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/10/w...holocaust.html
 
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2022-02-28 LETA/TBT Staff



RIGA - During an extraordinary sitting on Monday, it took Saeima just ten minutes to pass amendments to the National Security Law in two readings to allow Latvian citizens to fight on the Ukrainian side as volunteers.

The amendments were approved in principle by Saeima Defense, Internal Affairs and Corruption Prevention Committee on Sunday evening. The amendments are to come into force the day after they are promulgated.

According to the amendments, Latvian citizens who decide to travel to Ukraine to fight as volunteers will have to register with the Latvian National Armed Forces' Reserve.

Currently Latvian laws prohibit Latvian citizens from serving abroad or in foreign armed forces, military organizations, intelligence or security services, police or other authorities.
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RIGA - Belarus' involvement in the war started by Russia against Ukraine means that Belarus is also an aggressor and must be sanctioned just as harshly as Russia, Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics (New Unity) believes.

As LETA was told at the Foreign Ministry, Rinkevics met with the foreign ministers of Lithuania, Estonia and the UK in Vilnius on Thursday to discuss developments in Ukraine and further steps to be taken in response to the military aggression launched by Russia and Belarus.

Rinkevics pointed out at the meeting that, with its blitzkrieg in Ukraine failing, Russia is now launching more massive attacks, destroying civilian infrastructure and killing civilians. The ministers were unanimous on the need to mechanisms for enforcement of international law should be applied to hold Russia accountable for war crimes it had perpetrated.
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RIGA - Latvia would support accession of Sweden and Finland to NATO, Latvian President Egils Levits said in an interview with LETA.

He underscored that Russia is an aggressive country who threatens its neighbors and the whole democratic world. Russia's attack on Ukraine has made "scales fall from the eyes" of the Western world, and now the countries have to consider what their future policies should be.
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Commenting on potential accession of Ukraine and Georgia to NATO, Levits said that the alliance believes that any country has to right to join it. Accession of Ukraine and Georgia has not been on NATO's agenda, but over the recent weeks the public opinion is changing.
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RIGA - Countries that were neutral before the Russian invasion of Ukraine are finally aware of the global threat posed by the regime of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Martins Vargulis, a researcher at the Latvian Institute of Foreign Affairs, told LETA.

Commenting on the involvement of Finland, Sweden and Switzerland in imposing sanctions on Russia and supplying arms to Ukraine, the researcher noted that the perception of some countries has changed dramatically. As no scenario can be ruled out at the moment, and in order to reduce Putin's ability to brandish his power, all means, both economic and military, are being used in this case, thus supporting not only Ukraine, but also weakening Russia's economy and lessening the country's military potential.

Speaking about Switzerland, which consistently maintained neutrality during the First and Second World Wars, Vargulis pointed out that it is a question of which side the country decides to take. In the case of Switzerland, the answer is gradually becoming clear. In the 21st century, Switzerland is also a country that has advocated an international system based on legal frameworks, responsibilities and agreements in which diplomacy prevails over a world free of this kind of aggression.

"Definitely, Switzerland does not want to be a part of the world where there is such an aggressor, so Switzerland's involvement is justified and its position is also supported by society," said Vargulis.
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Baltic state asks for permanent US troop deployment


The Latvian president has said an American presence at Russia’s doorstep will send a ‘strong signal’ to Moscow

Latvian President Egils Levits has called for a “permanent presence” of US troops in the Baltics amid Russia’s offensive in Ukraine. He argued that the move would deter Moscow from “aggression beyond Ukraine.” Russia has repeatedly stated it does not plan to attack any other countries, insisting that its actions in Ukraine were aimed at protecting the Russian-speaking population of Donbass.

During an interview with CNN’s ‘State of the Union’ on Sunday, Levits said a permanent US military presence in the region was “absolutely” necessary to combat what he said was Russian “aggression.”
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Russia's Severstal seeks release of Latvian subsidiary's steel in EU


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March 16 (Reuters) - Russian steel producer Severstal is seeking the release of steel products of its Latvia-based subsidiary frozen in the European Union’s warehouses after the bloc imposed sanctions on its main shareholder, it said.

Severstal suspended steel exports to the EU after Alexey Mordashov was sanctioned on Feb. 28 - along with other Russian tycoons - amid the conflict in Ukraine. On Tuesday, the EU decided to ban steel product imports from Russia.

Latvia-based SIA Severstal Distribution, Severstal’s only European subsidiary, had its operations put on hold after the sanctions against Mordashov, a spokesperson for Severstal told Reuters on Wednesday.
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Jewish groups condemn Latvian parade to honour Nazis, warn it could be used for Russian propaganda

18/03/2022

Jewish groups are condemning a parade in Latvia to celebrate members of Adolf Hitler’s SS, warning that the continued glorification of Nazis is not only wrong, but could also be used for Russian propaganda.

The march to honour Latvia’s SS Legion has been a controversial annual event, but pandemic health restrictions forced the cancellation of the celebration for the past two years. Latvian TV reported it was back on this year with several hundred people participating in the parade in Riga on Wednesday.

For decades, Jewish groups have condemned the celebration and what they say is Latvia’s continued glorification of those who supported Hitler or took part in the Holocaust. There were also concerns the parade would give Russian leader Vladimir Putin yet another example to drive home his propaganda message that NATO nations and Ukraine are home to Nazis. Putin has already claimed his military needed to invade Ukraine to “de-Nazify” that country.

Marvin Rotrand, a national director with B’nai Brith Canada, said Latvia continued to ignore calls for the parade to be shut down. “They are honouring a SS unit whose members were involved in atrocities,” Rotrand said. “This year, in particular, there is an amazing lack of understanding of the damage a march like this does to the unity of NATO and the nations standing for democracy.”

Over the years, eastern European nations have erected monuments to nationalistic leaders who fought the Soviet Union during the Second World War, but many of those same leaders were Nazi collaborators and some were active participants in the Holocaust. The Nazis also created SS units drawn from men in Lithuania, Latvia, Ukraine and Estonia.

Holocaust scholars and Jewish groups note the easiest way for eastern European governments to undercut Putin’s claims that they support Nazism would be to put a halt to such celebrations and to remove monuments to collaborators.

But Latvian officials have doubled down on praise for the SS and argue the members of the legion are heroes who fought the Russians and had nothing to do with the Holocaust.

In 2019, Latvian Defence Minister Artis Pabriks called the SS members “the pride of the Latvian people and of the state.” Pabriks also called out those who condemned the parade, adding, “It is our duty to honour these Latvian patriots from the depths of our soul.”

Canadian government and military officials refused to condemn Pabriks’ statements.

In early 2019, however, Global Affairs Canada denounced the annual March 16 parade. Amy Mills, a department spokesperson, said Canada was “strongly opposed to the glorification of Nazism and all forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia, intolerance and extremism. That is why we condemn the parade to commemorate the Latvian SS Brigade held in Latvia on March 16th.”

This year, Global Affairs Canada took a less strident approach. It did not mention Nazis, nor specifically denounce the parade. “Canada has consistently supported Latvia’s freedom and independence, and condemns those who would co-opt those sentiments to promote hatred, extremism, and division,” department spokesperson James Emmanuel Wanki noted in an email Thursday. “To our understanding, these events are neither sanctioned nor attended by the Latvian government.”

The Canadian Forces has around 540 troops in Latvia as part of a NATO mission. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently concluded a visit to Latvia and announced a further extension of the mission. His office noted “Canada and Latvia’s relationship is rooted in our shared values.”

The Latvian SS Legion consisted of hard-core Nazi collaborators who had taken part in the Holocaust as well as conscripts. Among the Legion’s officers was Viktors Arajs, the anti-Semite who liked to refer himself as “Arajs, the Latvian Jew-killer.”

Arajs once regaled guests at a dinner party in Riga with his views on the best method to kill Jewish babies, according to the book The Holocaust in Latvia. Arajs told his dinner party participants he would throw the children into the air and then shoot them. That way he avoided ricochets that might happen if he murdered the babies on the ground.

Latvian TV reported the government had increased the police presence at this year’s parade and there were no incidents. Government officials denied a request to allow a counter-protest by those opposed to Nazi glorification.

The Latvian government and its supporters allege those denouncing the parade have been duped by “Russian disinformation.” The right-wing Macdonald Laurier Institute in Ottawa, which has received funding from the Latvian defence ministry, has also claimed some news articles outlining Latvians’ participation in the Holocaust and support for Hitler “essentially parroted the Kremlin’s tailored narratives.”

But Jewish groups have raised concerns such statements are aimed at whitewashing the Holocaust.

Dovid Katz, editor of Defending History, a journal devoted to Holocaust studies and fighting Nazi glorification, said it was “utterly sad” the parade was back on in Riga. “That they would this year again be gifted the historic centre of the capital is a folly rife with poor judgment and even poorer ethics in an act of de-facto state facilitation of a pathetic worship of Hitlerism,” he said.

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ON BOARD THE SUPPLY SHIP ELBE, Latvia, March 21 (Reuters) - Hours after Russian missiles first struck Ukrainian cities on Feb. 24, German naval commander Terje Schmitt-Eliassen received notice to sail five warships under his command to the former Soviet Republic of Latvia to help protect the most vulnerable part of NATO's eastern flank.

The hasty dispatch was part of Germany's scramble to send "everything that can swim out to sea," as the navy's top boss phrased it, to defend an area military strategists have long deemed the weakest point for the alliance. The vessels' sudden departure demonstrated how NATO, and Germany, were propelled by Russia's invasion into a new reality and face what officials, diplomats, intelligence officials and security sources agree is the most serious threat to the alliance's collective security since the Cold War.

Schmitt-Eliassen, who is based in the German Baltic port of Kiel, spoke to Reuters on the flight deck of the supply ship Elbe. Moored next to it, within sight of the church towers of the Latvian capital Riga, were a Latvian and a Lithuanian ship, and vessels and sailors from nations including Denmark, Belgium and Estonia were due to join the group later.
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