The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, said that Latvia’s intention to deport Russian citizens is a crime. This has been reported Web site Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
“We are carefully monitoring the situation with the increasing threat of mass deportation from Latvia in the near future of Russian citizens, mostly elderly, who cannot pass the Latvian language test to renew their residence permit in accordance with draconian changes in local legislation. immigration legislation,” Zakharova said.
A representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry noted that many Russian citizens at risk of deportation from Latvia are over 60-70 years old, and some have disabilities. At the same time, these citizens regularly paid taxes, and many of the elderly were deported to Russia, many of whom they neither knew nor had relatives, a crime that Zakharova compared to the persecution of the Nazis.
Before that it was known in Russia will introduce Mandatory consular registration of Russian citizens living abroad.
Formerly at the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs compared Latvia’s plans to deport Russians through the actions of fascists.