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RIGA - The Latvian Security Police has detained Aleksandrs Gaponenko, a pro-Russian radical and the leader of an unregistered organization, the Congress of Non-citizens, over possible anti-Latvian activities, according to LETA's sources. Lawyer Imma Jans...
THE HAGUE - NATO is not planning to boost its military presence in the Baltic states which have called for extra protection from their Russian neighbor, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said today. "Currently we are not planning to increase our military presence in the region, but what we are planning is to strengthen our ability to reinforce if needed," Stoltenberg told reporters after talks with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte. The lead...
RIGA - The Defense Ministry calls a recent article on a pro-Russian ''news'' site about supposed Latvian soldiers training Ukrainian saboteurs as fake news and a ''classic Russian information operation'', LETA was informed by the Defense Ministry. The pro-Russian ''news'' portal rusvesna.su recently wrote an article claiming that a group of NATO soldiers were involved in the training of Ukrainian saboteurs. The portal claims t...
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