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Latvia minister cites threat from 'information war' over Russian minority
REUTERS ^
| Mar 12, 2015
| AIJA KRUTAINE
Posted on 03/12/2015 10:35:15 AM PDT by McGruff
Latvia's security is at risk from Russian-funded advocacy groups waging "information war" that suggests the Baltic state is persecuting its Russian minority, its interior minister said in an interview.
Latvia and neighboring Estonia and Lithuania, all part of the Soviet Union until 1991, are wary about their newly assertive giant neighbor Russia, which has long complained the rights of ethnic Russians are being undermined in the Baltics
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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: crimea; donetsk; estonia; ibtz; latvia; lithuania; putinsbuttboys; russia; ukraine; vladtheimploder; zotsallfolks; zotworthy
You can thank Ukraine for restarting the Cold War. If not a shooting war.
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posted on
03/12/2015 10:35:15 AM PDT
by
McGruff
Tensions have increased over Russia's perceived support for Russian-speaking separatists in Ukraine. A quarter of the population in Latvia, which like Lithuania and Estonia is a European Union member state, is ethnic Russian.
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posted on
03/12/2015 10:35:55 AM PDT
by
McGruff
(Oh, what a tangled web we weave...when first we practice to deceive.)
To: McGruff
You can thank Ukraine for restarting the Cold War. If not a shooting war. Poor Putin. He was just minding his own business when those terrible Ukrainian aggressors started picking on him.
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posted on
03/12/2015 10:41:24 AM PDT
by
FreeReign
To: McGruff
Early stages of more Russian invasions.
Being free is such a horrible provocation to Russkies.
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posted on
03/12/2015 11:42:03 AM PDT
by
free_life
(If you ask Jesus to forgive you and to save you, He will.)
To: free_life
Russia is a vile and bloody nation, and Putin is the KGB man to reawaken those horrors.
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posted on
03/12/2015 12:15:33 PM PDT
by
ansel12
(Palin--Mr President, the only thing that stops a bad guy with a nuke is a good guy with a nuke.)
To: McGruff
“the Baltic state is persecuting its Russian minority”
Damn, just like those persecuted Germans in late 30’s...
“You can thank Ukraine for restarting the Cold War. If not a shooting war.”
Don't forget to thank Poland for starting WW2.
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