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The European Parliament has strongly backed proposals put forward by Latvian MEP Tatjana Zdanoka to tackle discrimination. These include developing new EU legislation to deal specifically with discrimination and making the European Charter on Fundamental Rights legally binding. read more >> (0) (Have read: 4607)

European Court of Human Rights upheld the course of T. Zdanoka against authorities of Latvia. read more >> (0) (Have read: 4697)

Latvian Euro-MP Tatjana Zdanoka has expressed her disappointment with MEPs failure to back parliamentary amendments strengthening the rights of the so-called 'non-nationals' living in the European Union read more >> (0) (Have read: 4683)

The Green/EFA Group in the European Parliament has welcomed the Parliament's Petitions Committee decision that the situation of the Russian speaking minority in Latvia warrants further investigation read more >> (0) (Have read: 4765)

Latvian Euro-MP Tatjana Zdanoka, whose party represents the country's significant Russian speaking minority, has called for calm, tolerance and understanding after the EP passed a resolution this week marking sixty years since the end of World War Two. Ms Zdanoka stressed that she supported much of the resolution but was unable to vote in favour since she feared the resolution could be exploited by right wing Baltic politicians to attack the Russian minority read more >> (0) (Have read: 4717)

Euro-MPs will hear the case of Jurijs Petropavlovskis, a Latvian born ethnic Russian. Mr Petropavlovskis - an activist in favour of the rights of the Russian minority - has been denied Latvian citizenship even though he was born in Latvia and has passed the naturalization exams. The Latvian authorities refused him citizenship on the basis of his lack of loyalty to the government read more >> (0) (Have read: 4730)

Dear MEPs and Assistants,
Recently you will have received two documents concerning Latvia. Firstly the appeal of the Latvian Association of Former Warriors of the Anti-Hitler Coalition to MEPs which I forwarded for your attention on 31 March, and secondly the response to this appeal from Latvia's other eight MEPs, sent to you on 5 April read more >> (0) (Have read: 4946)

The protestors tried to prevent Waffen SS veterans marching along the streets of Riga. Today - March 16 - is the day when traditionally former Latvian soldiers who fought during the World War II on the side of Nazi Germany commemorate the deaths of Latvian SS members killed fighting the Red Army.
Some two hundred SS veterans marched to Riga's Freedom memorial to lay flowers. Protestors dressed in striped prison clothes bearing yellow stars to remind people of atrocities carried out in Latvia by the SS. They formed a human chain to try to block the march by SS veterans read more >> (0) (Have read: 4768)

Latvian MEP Tatjana Zdanoka has expressed regret that Latvian President Vike-Freiberga chose to try to draw the President of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso, into the President's attempts to re-write history.
Now in a written answer to a Parliamentary question by Ms Zdanoka, the European Commission has cast doubt on the Latvian President's claim that Sr Barroso supported her point of view read more >> (0) (Have read: 4657)

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