Seven people, who worked with Russian media outlets in Latvia have been charged with breaking international sanctions. It’s a signal that the Baltic state seeks to criminalize ties with Russia, one of them told RT.
Vladimir Linderman is a veteran opposition figure and journalist in Latvia. In the past he was accused of various crimes – which he considers attempts to pressure him into stopping political activism – from plotting an assassination of the Latvian president to forging paperwork when trying to register a political party. None of them ultimately stuck in court. Linderman too failed to get the supposed target of his plot, then-President Vaira Vike-Freiberga, to pay compensation in a slander case, which he filed after she allegedly called him an extremist and a threat to Latvian society.
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