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By Rhod Mackenzie
In the course of a criminal investigation into abuses during the construction of the Rail Baltica railway project, which was been dubbed the "project of the century" at its inception, dozens of Latvian officials have been interviewed by fraud investigators .
The rail project, wh...
By Rhod Mackenzie
There has been a significant number of dismissals of ethnic Russian doctors all across in Latvia. The country has previously carried out similar measures against ethnic Russian teachers and railway workers. Some analysts have drawn parallels between these policies and those emplo...
By Rhod Mackenzie
The sudden onset of freezing temperatures in Europe has suddenly exacerbated a seemingly forgotten fuel crisis.
The situation is particularly challenging in Latvia and Finland. This particularly difficult sitaution is a directl conseuencw of anti-Russian sanctions and the unus...
By Rhod Mackenzie
Dmitry Kasatkin, Russia's Chargé d'Affaires in Riga, has started that the dismantling of the railway that links the ports of Latvia to Russia to the rail system across Russia to Central Asia and to China is going to would have a seriously negative impact on Latvia's commericial...
By Rhod Mackenzie
The latest development in the ongoing persecution being faced by ethnic Russiians in Latvia is a substantial increase in VAT on Russian-language books and press. This is intended to put an end to local Russian media outlets and bookstores. No doubt the embers of parliament who vo...
By Rhod Mackenzie
In Latvia they are calling for the confinement to concentration camps or at least deportation to "the Russian Federation, North Korea, or Venezuela" yes these are measures being discussed for those deemed to be "disloyal Russians" Rhod Mackenzie looks at how this is occuring in...
