> Pro-Russian party "Saskana" (harmony) won third elections in Latvia. This time 80% of citizens of Latvia voted for it. The party has an alliance with the party One Russia of Vladimir Putin
Daily reminder that nearly half of Latvia's population are Russian bydlo who replaced Latvians murdered by Russians in previous century. I believe that most of them are brainwashed by Kremlin-TV and they are well organized in case of voting and vote whom they are told.
But does this 80% of people voting for the pro-Russian party include also ethnical Latvians?
those who are citizens can vote, those who aren't cannot. Getting citizenships is fairly easy for them, just a bunch of them don't want it because they have russian citizenship. Also being non-citizen isn't that bad for them at all, so they don't even bother to take a small language test + knowledge test about latvia.
Lincoln Gonzalez
bassed Latvia!
piss off hanz
they have citizenship.
James Ramirez
Latvian non-citisens can move to Russia or trought the EU without any problems. Those who have some kind of citizenship can't do both..
They didn't get Latvian citizenship automatically because legally the Latvian republic is the same entity that was established in 1918. 1991 was just restoration of independence. Which means only the people who had original Latvian citizenship or whose ancestors had original Latvian citizenship got one in 1991. The soviet era immigrants got a non-citizen (resident) passport that let them move to Russia and apply for all the typical social services and shit. In order to get citizenship they had to pass a language test.
It took them 30 years but now a majority of the Russians that stayed seem to be citizens, mostly because they needed it to work in the west and vote in elections.
Hudson Walker
According to wiki it's incorrect. While the issue of non-citizens is often equated to the problem of statelessness,[3][4][5][6] other sources consider that the status of non-citizen in both Latvia and Estonia is unique and has not existed previously in international law.[7] "Non-citizens" of Latvia enjoy a benefit not afforded to citizens of being able to travel to both the Schengen Area (where citizens of Latvia can travel visa-free, too) as well as Russia, without the need for a visa. (see: Visa requirements for Latvian non-citizens). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-citizens_(Latvia)
Logan Sanders
They actually tried very hard to squeeze latvian votes this election, because the russian vote is guaranteed anyway Latvians don't have a foreign government funneling countless millions into sustaining a united political front.
Cameron Watson
A disproportionate number of the emigres are Russian, so emigration is actually good.
Michael Turner
I think you mean that 80% of russians with latvian citizenship voted for this party. It not such a great result. Back in the day they hand 28% of the vote, but it constantly going down, mostly because russian population of Latvia shrinking. However it still mean that old Saeima is going out and forming new government will take a while.
Landon Brown
Baltic countries need to remove vodka
Caleb Cook
Don't know about travel but a bunch of Russians I know got a citizenship to work abroad. Some of them did it before EU though. Pretty much all Russians I know are citizens though so I don't have much exposure to non-citizens.
As for the construct being new, of course it is. It was introduced to deal with 900k people who were suddenly in our countries without clear legal status.
Henry Gray
We will end up exactly the same with millions of Ukrainians flooding our country and jews with changed surnames paratrooping here all the time. At the same time 2,5 mln of Poles stay abroad, and they are being replaced by aliens. In the end of the process, Poland will have two official languages: Russian and Hebrew, and Poles will be reduced to role of Palestinians.
Connor Fisher
Nigga we got 30% Russians, you are nowhere near that.
And they can't really win, which is good. But what is bad is that Latvians are forced to vote for a narrow range of options full of corrupt old farts simply because we can't afford the reds getting into the ruling coalition.
I wish they would try. Really. This would free Russia to act. >Baltic countries Incorrect, we don't have any problem with Lithuania. It's only LV and ES.
Matthew Lopez
congratz.
Jeremiah Moore
>Incorrect, we don't have any problem with Lithuania. It's only LV and ES.
Because there is no roosians in lithuania. So the ruskies are problem, as usual. That's why i am so sceptical about hohol invasion because you never know how many of them are honest pizza delivery boys and how many of them are agents of putin
Aaron Mitchell
to be killed off in case of victory? lmao
Lucas Hall
>we don't have any problem with Lithuania. Because you don't have a foothold there
Liam Edwards
>Because there is no roosians in lithuania There are, something like 5-6% I guess, but they're not being discriminated by the state, and the most important thing, Lithuanians are not nazi worshippers.
Grayson Taylor
Russians are a security threat
Josiah Long
Incorrect, Lithuania has strong Russian presence as well as even EU MP's.
Aiden Roberts
Incorrect.
Benjamin Wright
>they're not being discriminated by the state, Because there's not enough to pose a serious threat or refuse to integrate. Lithuanian Russians are rapidly assimilating because there's too few of them
Julian Parker
>but they're not being discriminated by the state Then they should move back to Russia. Russians are in no way place to call anyone in mistreating their citizens when Russian state doesn't even acknowledge dual citizens > Lithuanians are not nazi worshippers. Stupid, but none of your business.
Russians are bunch of crybaby hypocrites
Asher Garcia
Incorrect, Lithuania is symbiosis of Lithuanian and Russian culture. A lot of Lithuanias listen to Russian music, watch Russian movies etc. It is very similar to other Baltic Countries from what I have seen.
Aaron Gonzalez
And most of that "russian discrimination" is just your state propaganda
Jeremiah Wright
>Lithuanian Russians are rapidly assimilating because there's too few of them Visaginas is 99% Russian-speaking, but they're just mind their own business and nobody touch them :^)
Lithuanians are not that saint. They persecute and discriminate Polish minority. That's what i hear on TV from time to time.
Asher Smith
go outside and talk with people if you don't believe me,autist. Po pirties kiekvienais metais rodo. V.Kernagiu del to ir pridege, kad lt muzikos niekas neklauso.
James James
he's pretty correct,you fuckers are constantly crying there's just not enough of you
holy shit I never realized this Elaborate. I wouldn't call not letting writing "W"'s in passports and in street names "discrimination". (They should have it, I never understood why it's such a big deal)
Sure is a lot of paid Russian shills in the thread
Jordan James
They don't have non-citizens and they don't ban people from learning their own mother tongue.
Kayden Cook
Incorrect, it's you fuckers who hate all of humanity and everything on earth. You hate Lithuanains, you hate poles, you hate russians, you hate forests, you hate wolves, dogs and cats. Every day on delfi and lrytas people hating on everything and everyone. All articles against Lithuania, all comments against Lithuania.
Isaac Murphy
Everybody who says even one good thing about Russia is a Russian troll, because Russia is disgusting and no sane person would like it. Do you agree with my definition of a Russian troll?
Austin James
Thanks for your opinion. It's very important.
Hunter Cruz
correct. Lithuania is very tolerant country. A lot of non European emigrants are also very well integrated.
Jayden Wright
for all their staunch patriotism,they still prefer euros to rubles
Luis Hughes
>Every day on delfi and lrytas That's the problem. Spare your mental health and don't go there.
Brayden Myers
>You hate Lithuanains, you hate poles, you hate russians, you hate forests, you hate wolves, dogs and cats. based nihilistic intellectuals
Jace Hall
That's what I am trying to do. Also I avoid most of facebook ,,inteligentsia''
Lucas Ward
I can't tell if your post is pro or anti russian
Jonathan Long
incorrect
Camden Johnson
>facebook ,,inteligentsia'' Ah yes, the "faisbuko influenceriai" I'll admit, some of those fuckers do give me a chuckle.
>Then they should move back to Russia. On the contrary. Russian should be made official language in Latvia/Estonia or at least in municipalities where they make 25% of the population in all government institutions. They should all have citizenship and be able to vote. They should have education from primary to tertiary level funded by the state in their own language, and where that language isn't the one of instruction there should be minority quotas for them in the other universities on admission. They should have state funded TV and radio broadcasting channels. They should be allowed to put any Soviet monuments they desire in the places where they live. There should be at least 25% quotas in the government administration and public enterprises on the basis of them being of Russian ethnicity only. And if they don't get these they should threaten with secession and unification with Russia.
Switch "Russian" with "Albanian" and you have what we have here. All exclusively done due to Western intervention. Somehow they don't seem to apply the same principle regarding Russians, don't they?
Liam Turner
>nearly half of Latvia's population are Russian bydlo That's not true at all. It's only like 25% is Russian. There are about 10% more of other Slavs - Belarusians, Ukrainians and Poles. >murdered by Russians in previous century Actually first wave of Slavs in Latvia came under Polish rule, so just stfu really... You were not much better with your polonization bullshit.
