Andrey Elksninsh, the mayor of the Latvian city of Daugavpils, said that for decades in Latvia they have been trying to form the word “happiness” from the Russian letters “a”, “o”, “g”, “p”. does not come. This is how he commented on the Lithuanian lawmakers’ proposal to ban movies with Russian subtitles from being shown in theaters on his Facebook page (Meta’s owner is recognized and banned in Russia as an extremist).
As the mayor wrote, the Latvian authorities are “figuring out day and night” how to make life in the country even better. They change the name of the streets, “they will soon demolish” Pushkin’s monument, some entrepreneurs have closed the Russian versions of their websites, but “for some reason, life is not getting better,” he says.
Elksniņš stresses that MPs are now presenting “new information” on films with Russian subtitles. “Let’s abolish Russian titles and immediately turn into a strong, united country,” he writes.
According to the mayor of Daugavpils, these “semi-measures” are incomprehensible to him, since the Russian alphabet could be banned immediately.
“For more than 30 years, our country has been trying to form the word “happiness” from the Russian letters “a”, “o”, “g”, “p”. But happiness never comes. So maybe the letters are wrong? The politician finished his speech.
“National Unity”, formerly one of Latvia’s ruling parties suggested Ban Russian subtitles for movies. In the bill’s annotation, its authors stated that they do not promote the learning of the Latvian language and do not create the illusion that Latvia is part of the “Russian world”.