RIGA 's Latvian parliament's national security committee plans to amend the Immigration Law so that courts would no longer have the opportunity to annul blacklisting decisions.
After meeting Security Police chief Janis Reiniks, committee deputy chairman Mareks Seglins told reporters that the decision was based on ostracized Russian national Alexander Kazakov's recent repeal.
Kazakov, notorious for his activities in the unregistered Headquarters for Protection of Russian Schools in Latvia, was blacklisted by the Interior Ministry as he "posed a threat to the state," but the Latvian Supreme Court repealed the decision last week.
