While I am not closely aware of internal politics which influence decisions in Latvia no less than they do in any other country, I do wonder when Russia will finally advise itself of the fact that Latvia is a foreign country and not a province of Russia. Latvia’s state language is Latvian, not Russian. People of Russian ancestry who have chosen Latvian citizenship are, obviously enough, citizens of Latvia, and Russia has absolutely no say in language choices pertaining to citizens of another country. Meanwhile, people of Russian origin who have chosen to live in Latvia but have not chosen to seek Latvian citizenship are absolutely free to take the short trip east across the border and watch Russian television one hundred percent of their time to their hearts’ content. What they are not free to do is to try to dictate the policies of a foreign country that is gracious enough to allow them residence. Nor does Russia have any right to interfere in the internal affairs of a neighbour, as the imperial age of both the Tsars and the commissars is well and truly history. Most people of Russian origin living in the Baltics are not “national minorities” in the sense that the term is generally used, but recent immigrants. National minorities are people of distinct ethnicity and culture to the majority population, but who have traditionally lived in there for generations and are historically a part of the nation, like the Sami people of Sweden or the Ainu people of Japan or the Finno-Ugric minorities in Russia. There are genuine Russian minority populations in the Baltics, but these are people who travelled there centuries ago to escape persecution in Tsarist Russia, who were citizens of Baltic countries in 1939 prior to their Soviet occupation, and who re-claimed their citizenship automatically in 1991 with the end of the occupation. They do not include the illegal post-war colonial waves of Russians (and others) into the occupied Baltics.

To Marzipan6, Your assertion: “Meanwhile, people of Russian origin who have chosen to live in Latvia but have not chosen to seek Latvian citizenship are absolutely free to take the short trip east across the border”,__is pure and untainted, Fascist declaration which Hitler used in his speeches leading up to power and afterwards exterminating 6 million Jews by sending them to gas chambers. History knows that Latvia and Estonia provided demonic Hitler with Nazi oriented National Legions which participated in the extermination of Jews and other ethnic nationals during WW2 and you are a reincarnated Nazi affiliate acting on the instruction of your superiors. My advice to the people of the free World is to make an investigation of your past and discover which organisation gave you training and funds to promote Fascism and put you under close surveillance of your activities. 174999

Dear Stole: do please join the rest of us back here on Planet Earth. If Russian foreigners living abroad wish to live in circumstances that exist in Russia, for example in an environment in which Russian is the national language, they should obviously consider the advantages of moving to Russia. This holds equally true regardless of whether they currently live in the United States, in Japan or in Latvia, and has nothing but nothing even remotely to do with anything pertaining to Nazism. Now if Latvians had forcibly deported Russians out of the country in cattle wagons, like Russians and Germans both did to them, then of course there would be a parallel. But Baltic people are more civilized by far than that. They grant foreigners citizenship by naturalization, and extend permanent residency permits to those who do not wish to take out citizenship, but who nevertheless wish to remain in their countries of residence and avail themselves of the better living conditions that they enjoy there than they would were they to return to Russia. If you wish to discuss the status of the Russian language in foreign countries, including in Latvia, by all means do so. But it would be an excellent idea if that is what you then actually discussed, instead of veering off into bizarre personal insults.

To Marzipan6, You write about the same old baloney over and over again for which I have given you uncontested answers for which you had no credible factual respond and sometimes don’t even have response at all, such as this one: Neo-cons (Illuminati) are more than 200 years old comrade, guided with pre determined goals through orchestrated phases of Global chaos to finally achieve their ultimate end and that is supreme masters of the Planet Earth. And I can assure you, Estonia and yourself are not in the ruling class. NOVUS ORDO SECLORUM, order out of chaos is their well rehearsed achievement, starting with the French Revolution to the present World Economic chaos. These Jewish run factions are only a handful of the people of the Planet but they are using you and many more like you to advance their agenda for the ultimate end and when they are done with it, you will be dispose of with many more citizens of this Planet. So the more nations hate and fear each other, the greater serves their purpose because through orchestrated Wars throughout the history, they achieved that. Nathan Mayer Lord Rothschild—1743, said: only my 5 sons can decide if there will be War on the Planet or not. There is a 5 hours movie on your tube called “EMPIRE OF THE CITY—RING OF POWER 01/34”, which a person on RT directed us to. I have seen it and I strongly advise you to watch it and then we can discuss anything you want further.