PHOTO FROM ARCHIWUM: organization MP For Stability!, Aleksey Roslikov, speaking in the Latvian Parliament.© Facebook / Aleksey Roslikov
Latvian MP was expelled from the session of parliament and can be punished for speaking Russian in violation of the fresh rules of parliament, said the assembly president.
The incidental occurred on Thursday during a debate in the Sejm on the declaration of "retirement of impacts" alleged ‘russification’ Latvia, which according to the authorities in Riga took place under russian regulation from 1940 to 1991.
Since the escalation of the conflict in Ukraine in 2022. Latvia and its Baltic neighbours, Estonia and Lithuania, have intensified their efforts against Russia's alleged influence.Riga introduced travel restrictions against Russian citizens, banned vehicles with registration plates into the country and introduced a compulsory Latvian language test for long-term residents of Russian origin.
Thousands of people who failed or refused to pass the exam were deported.
The Kremlin condemned these measures as "an alarming discrimination against Russians".Alexey Roslikov of the For stableness Party!He spoke in Parliament against putting the declaration on the agenda.
The organization represents Russian-speaking interests in the EU country, which account for 24.5% of its population, as reported in the 2021 census.
The legislator criticised the increasing marginalisation of Russian-speaking people in Latvia, saying:
“What next?
A law prohibiting giving children Russian names due to the fact that they sound Russian?”Roslikov gave a speech in Latvian, but ended it with a phrase in Russian, announcing:
“There are more of us and Russian is our language”.
The MP then showed the audience a obscene gesture.The Member's behaviour outraged many of his colleagues who immediately voted to exclude him from the session of Parliament.
The decision was supported by 69 out of 100 members of parliament.Speaker of the Sejm, Daiga Mierina, said Roslikov showed ‘no respect“ to his fellow Members and may be punished in addition, including a ban on participation in up to six consecutive parliamentary sessions and a warning.At the end of May, the Sejm voted on fresh rules whereby Members should communicate in parliament only in the authoritative Latvian language.Roslikov later told the media that he did not regret calling his outburst appropriate erstwhile individual was denied the right to talk his own language.Former Russian president Dmitri Medvedev made the video available from the Sejm on his site on X and praised the Latvian MP for defending Russian language.
On the eve of Russian Language Day, which is celebrated June 6, “The honest people have explained everything to the ardent rusophobes in their native Russian language”, wrote Medvedev, who presently serves as Vice-President of the safety Council of Russia.
Translated by Google Translator
source:https://www.rt.com/russia/618723-latvia-eu-language-medvedev/
