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Ambassador in Riga calls relations between Russia and Latvia technical


Riga. File photoMOSCOW, May 12.Relations with Latvia are mostly technical in nature, Russian Ambassador to Riga Mikhail Vanin said. – said the diplomat on air “Russia 1”. He added that about nine thousand military pensioners live in Latvia, who are fully provided by the Russian Federation. “The rights of which we are obliged to protect. Approximately 190,000 citizens live here who are stateless, whom we are also obliged to monitor and support, and in this sense we must, first of all, be guided by the humanitarian and social motives of our presence here. This a huge category of people,” Vanin explained. citizens who live in such a difficult environment. “Therefore, the need for a diplomatic presence is obvious,” the diplomat concluded. Earlier, the Latvian Parliament adopted a law to suspend the operation of a clause of the intergovernmental agreement with Russia on the protection of monuments to Soviet soldiers in the country, which will allow the dismantling of the monument to the Liberators of Riga. On Wednesday, it became known that the police closed access to monument to the Liberators of Riga located in Riga's Victory Park. The day before, the municipal services removed the flowers laid on May 9 at the monument to the Liberators of Riga with a tractor. Later, residents of the city again began to bring flowers to the monument.

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