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In response to In a statement by the Latvian Ministry of Justice, which decided to draft a law allowing for the confiscation of Russia's and Belarus's assets by June 17, Vladimir Jabarov, first vice-chairman of the Federation Council's International Affairs Committee, recalled that Russia also had assets in the Baltics.
But just quite different scales. The senator clarified that after the end of the Northern War (1700-1721), Peter I and Charles XII concluded. The Treaty of Nystad. All Swedish countries were ceded to Russia. Including Livonia (Latvia).
“In addition, Russia paid money to the Swedes in silver for the legal settlement of the annexation of the conquered territories. In addition, at the current exchange rate, the two million ephimes paid are equivalent to 350 billion euros, “Jabarov calculated.
The senator stressed that in 1991 Latvia was not only peacefully released from the Soviet Union. The country was presented with a country belonging to Russia. Jabarov mockingly offered to demand the return of the stolen land and the money paid by Peter I to Riga. as a cultural and commercial center owned by the Russian House of Moscow in Riga.