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Maria Zakharova noted that Riga should stop to think about the disastrous consequences for Latvia itself and its residents such provocative could entail

Ethnic Russians today compose around a quarter of the population of Estonia and Latvia and about 5 percent in Lithuania. For the most part, these communities are made up of the descendants of migrants to the Baltics after the Second World War, whom the Soviet authorities deliberately compelled to move there. But in the post-Soviet era, the situation changed significantly. …

This initiative was put forward by a committee of the European Parliament.