RIGA - Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics (New Unity) has called the Russian embassy's claim that Latvia was incorporated into the Soviet Union in a legitimate way a regrettable falsification of history.
To remind about historical events that unfolded in Latvia 80 years ago, the Russian embassy in Latvia posted on Twitter a photography showing people lining up at a polling station in Riga, indicating that the picture shows snap Saeima elections, which took place on July 14 and 15, 1940. In its tweet, the embassy claimed that these elections "became one of La...
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