Moscow has decided to include citizens of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia in the stop list of the most hostile to the Russian Federation. The list includes 144 people, according to a statement released on Thursday by the Russian Foreign Ministry on personal sanctions against representatives of the social and political circles of the Baltic countries.
“A decision was made to include in the Russian stop list the most hostile to our country ministers, parliament deputies, public figures, journalists from Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia,” the document says. “This step was taken as a response to the active lobbying by the Baltic states of sanctions and other measures against Russia, interference in our internal affairs, inciting Russophobic sentiments.”
On Smolenskaya Square, it was indicated that “the 144 citizens of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia included in the list are also involved in the barbaric campaign launched by the authorities of these states for the mass demolition of monuments to Soviet liberators, persecution of the Russian-speaking population, rewriting history, glorifying Nazism and the ongoing criminal line to escalate Ukrainian conflict and pumping up the Kiev regime with weapons”.