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Vladimir Putin commented a note by Kirill Vyshinsky, a member of the Presidential Council of the Russian Federation for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights, who recalled that Russian citizens in Latvia were forced to take a language test. exam and fill out questionnaires where they were required to declare disloyalty to the Russian Federation. Vyshinsky said 3,255 Russians living in Latvia with residence permits may have been forcibly expelled from Latvia.
Putin said Russian citizens faced Russophobia in the Baltic countries “long before the Northern Military District” and “someone decided to use a special military operation to solve some of their domestic political problems. In particular, the Russian leader was critical of the term “non-citizens”.
The Russian president also warned the Latvian authorities that if they continue to “behave like pigs” to those who want to live in the country, they will soon face retaliation attitudes.