Posted on 01/19/2024 4:43:04 PM PST by MeganC
MOSCOW, January 17. /TASS/. Present-day events in the Baltic countries, including the ongoing deportation of Russians from Latvia, affect Russia’s security, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting with heads of Russian municipalities.
"The events that are taking place in Latvia and other Baltic countries now, when the Russian people are being thrown out, are very serious and directly affect the security of our country," he said.
The Latvian authorities have sent repeated letters threatening to deport 985 Russians who failed to meet the requirement to obtain a residence permit in the country, the LTV TV channel reported with reference to the chief of the Office of Citizenship and Migration Affairs, Maira Roze.
Deportation of Russian nationals from Latvia Boris Katkov, an 82-year-old retiree, was deported from Latvia on January 13 for supposedly being a threat to national security, with no timetable for when he would be able to return. The day before, the country's authorities announced their decision. The Russian Embassy protested the incident, noting that Riga had violated the principle of not separating families: Katkov’s wife, children and grandchildren remained in Latvia.
In September 2022, the Saeima (unicameral parliament) of Latvia adopted amendments to the law on migration, which obliged Russian citizens who have permanent residence in the Baltic republic, to obtain a certificate of proficiency in the Latvian language at the A2 level by September 1, 2023. Otherwise, they would lose their residence status in the country.
On September 14, 2023, the Latvian Parliament approved the final reading of an amendment to the Immigration Law, extending the period to pass the state language exam by two years en route to obtaining the right to be a permanent resident in the Republic. Now Russian citizens living in Latvia will be able to obtain a temporary residence permit for two years, during which they will have to pass the state language exam. The application for a residence permit had to be submitted by December 31.
They could always just come across the southern border into the United States, Brandon doesn’t care.
Actually, this sounds like a typical Lefty ploy.
Poke. Poke poke. Poke poke poke.
Viet Nam did it with the ethnic Chinese.
Imagine most of the “ethnic” Russians like in Ukraine(Donbas/crimea) are there because of mass movement of Russians into occupied countries during soviet control.
Good riddance
If you do things like to start wars, don't be surprised if you get kicked out of the country you're living in. Especially if you're not the majority there.
Which is why Israel needs to kick everyone out of Gaza and deport them to places like Canada and South Africa.
We don’t want them in this hemisphere!
Yes,I know. My nephew is married to the daughter of deportees.
CC
I was thinking more in the line of remote Pacific islands.
CC
Agreed.
If Putin plays his cards right he could get all of these ex-pat Russians sent back to Russia where he can conscript them for war service. So if you think about it that way the Baltics are doing him a solid favor!
The Baltic states have an extremely “right” citizenship and residence policy. If nativism is right wing, then they are a model for the most extremist such people on FR.
This does not qualify as “lefty” in any modern conventional definition.
Ok, maybe Pol Pot or North Korea lefty, but that not what anyone is complaining about.
41 days until you payoff on our bet...
Ukraine was well on its way to integrating such people into Ukraine, as a polity. Zelensky himself was such a person.
It seems that Putin, with his war, may have completed the job of welding Ukraine together.
It's like talking about the Anglo-Saxons (modern day English folks and the Old Stock Colonial Americans) and the Germans.
You claim to be “sick” of the Ukraine-Russia threads, yet you reliably show up on every one, and even start some of your own
LOL no wonder no one takes you seriously ...
Tell them to pound sand, Latvia is part of NATO.
The problem is that NATO depends too much on the Americans. That’s the flaw of NATO. If we call it quits, Russia is going after the Baltics.
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