Latvia’s pro-Russia activist turns to Zhirinovsky asking to urge Latvian youth to go to Russia

RIGA - Marats Kasems who has been expelled from Latvia’s pro-Russia Harmony party and has joined For Independent Latvia party founded by Janis Kuzins, has participated in a meeting of the Russian State Duma compatriots affairs committee and submitted a proposal to Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party, asking him to urge Latvian youth to go to Russia.

Kuzins said in a statement to the press that Kasems and Zhirinovsky discussed the situation in Latvia and the proposal.

According to Kuzins, the meeting was also attended by Aleksandrs Gaponenko, an activist of the unregistered NGO Congress of Non-citizens, and Latvia’s MEP Tatjana Zdanoka from the Russian Union of Latvia.

Kasems in his proposal explained that many young people are leaving Latvia to study and work abroad, but they mostly go the EU countries, therefore it is necessary to develop a strategic program to attract them to Russia.