Latvia Questions Party Leader for Russian Comments in Parliament
Aleksejs Roslikovs
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Latvian authorities detained and questioned the leader of a political party catering to the country’s Russian-speaking minority for allegedly inciting hatred in parliament earlier this month.
Aleksejs Roslikovs was ejected from a parliamentary session earlier this month during a debate on restricting the public use of the Russian language, in which the party leader said “there are many more of us” in Russian and made a vulgar gesture. The episode lays bare the tension in the Baltic nation over its biggest minority group.