Latvian Foreign Minister outraged by Ukrainian cab driver who spoke Russian to her

Latvian Foreign Minister Baiba Brazhe criticized the cab service for the fact that the driver could only speak to her in Russian during the trip. She said this on December 19 in her social networks.

"Russian should not be the only language of communication," said Brazhe in the social network X (former Twitter).

The minister also specified that the driver was a Ukrainian refugee who did not speak Latvian. The company of the local aggregator Bolt apologized to Braže.

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On November 28, former Latvian Foreign Minister Janis Jurkans told Izvestia that the republic will always feel the neighborliness of Russia, while the current generation of Latvian politicians does not realize the role it played in the country's independence. He added that profanity against Russians and categorical refusal to speak Russian demonstrate the low level of self-awareness of modern Latvian residents.

Earlier, on October 30, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova reported on Russia's pre-trial claims against Latvia for discrimination against Russians. She specified that violations of the Convention on the Prohibition of Racial Discrimination by the authorities of the republic are expressed in the infringed status of Russians as non-citizens, the prohibition of education in Russian language in Latvia and its ousting from all spheres of public life, erasure of historical memory of the struggle against Nazism, glorification of Nazi criminals and other unacceptable manifestations of Russophobia.