Historian Gushchin was arrested in Latvia

Historian Viktor Gushchin was arrested in Latvia. This was announced on December 18 by Andrei Pagor, a deputy of the Jelgava Duma from the Russian Union of Latvia party.

"The Riga City Court has appointed a preventive measure in the form of detention, the harshest measure of restraint with restriction of liberty for two months, to Viktor Guschin, an activist of the movement of "politics of compatriots", who was detained on Wednesday by the State Security Service (SGB, VDD)," Pagor wrote on his Telegram channel.

According to the case file, the State Security Service of Ukraine claims that after the outbreak of the conflict in Ukraine, Guschin collaborated with a Russian resource under European Union (EU) sanctions. According to the recommendations of the State Security Service, access to this resource was blocked in Latvia.

"Five years for violating sanctions, seven years for killing a drunken general while hunting. It's absurd! The kingdom of crooked mirrors," concluded Pagor.

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Earlier, on October 11, the official representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, Irina Volk, announced the assistance of the Russian authorities to 800 Russian citizens who were deported from Latvia due to ignorance of the official language. In addition, she recalled that since 2006, there has been a state program to assist in the voluntary resettlement of compatriots living abroad to Russia.

Later, on October 13, official representative Dmitry Peskov said that Russian citizens whose stay in Latvia expires can return to Russia and build their lives in the country.

On October 3, the Polish newspaper Mysl Polska stated that the deportation of Russian citizens from Latvia is an example of an ill-conceived and excessively nationalistic policy of the local authorities. They continue to call the spread of the Russian language in the country the alleged result of the "Soviet occupation," completely ignoring the fact that Russian speakers make up about 40% of the republic's population, the newspaper writes. The article also says that such measures have a particularly hard impact on the older generation, for whom the Latvian language often remains difficult to master.

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