Latvian Political Monitor

From@lindberga22

I’ll say honestly — inside I’m boiling from this injustice. While the state funds Russian theatres in Latvia and various Russian and Belarusian associations, caring about the culture of foreign peoples, it simply spits on its own Latvian children. How can there be such a cruel attitude towards children who have already suffered? These children have been removed from their families. They have already been betrayed... And then comes the state, which should be that safe support, but it cannot even provide care for children in their native — Latvian — language. How can there be such a cretinous attitude towards one’s own people? How?! The state continues to operate in the finest Soviet traditions and, without the slightest remorse, has provided a Russification camp for Latvian children. Are you really so soft that you cannot find workers who speak Latvian? Or is this a deliberate step? And this is yet another glaring proof of how deep the state administration has sunk into degradation and destruction. The inability to lead and manage processes is all too obvious. While the state generously squanders budget funds, financing from SIF the “integration” of immigrants on the basis of the Russian language and studies about how Wolt and Bolt couriers feel, Latvian children are left in such a situation. In this care centre, the annual budget per child is less than 200 euros!!! Seriously??? Explain to me how such people can run a state? How can there be such neglect of one’s own country, people and children? In my view, this is a crime... Forgive me, but all the old Soviet-style models of governance and of robbing the state, and those who maintain them, must go into the rubbish heap of history!!! And stop once and for all talking nonsense that there is no money for the state! You have no conscience! It simply cannot continue like this!!!

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From@yarotrof

Don’t panic but also don’t underestimate Russia, Latvia’s president told me. President Edgars Rinkēvičs said that he was receiving intelligence assessments of looming Russian escalation, though for now below the threshold of outright military invasion that would trigger NATO’s Article 5 commitments to mutual defense. The war against Ukraine that began in 2022 has made Russia’s military stronger rather than weaker, a threat sometimes obscured by Russian failures to significantly advance on the ground in Ukraine, he warned. “The Russian economy is probably not as good as it used to be, but the Russian military is more dangerous than it used to be four and a half years ago, and we need to take this into account,” Rinkēvičs said. “Like it or not, this is a military that now has battle experience, and has also been very flexible and agile to adapt to new warfare.” https://t.co/eEOaioyauZ

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From@suvajevs

The Finance Minister worked on this slide about budget expenditure for four months. The government has not been able to prepare a single concrete possible action for reducing expenditure. This is not even at 'headline level'. There is complete emptiness here. https://t.co/tKhAGzBO2j

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From@DidzisSmits

Braže tried to imitate the Tālava horn-blower, but the horn stayed at home… Not to mention honour. To make the shame more complete, she suggested waiting a bit longer until someone brought the horn… I very much hope and urge action so that this JV nightmare remains in the past on 3 October. It will be a day to celebrate!

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