Latvia

nation state

Latvia  link
Location	Baltic States, Europe
Leader	Latvia/President
Type	nation state
Former USSR, now NATO and EU. The middle country of the Baltic States. SDS power consolidation in 2021

Latvia is a nation state in northern Europe. It was formerly part of the USSR.

VIPaedophile

In February 2000, Prime Minister Andris Skele and the Justice Minister, Valdis Birkavs, were named in parliament as being under investigation in a VIPaedophile affair. The pair strenuously denied the allegations. The case came to light in 1999 when managers of a fashion agency in the capital, Riga, were arrested for procuring boys and for selling paedophile videos. Latvian television interviewed some of the boys, who said two government ministers were among men they were forced to have sex with.

Dave McGowan wrote "As 1999 drew to a close, Latvia was rocked by a child prostitution/child pornography scandal that reached to the very top of the political power structure. The case first broke in August, when police uncovered a massive operation involving as many as 2,000 severely abused children. When media reports began linking top Latvian officials to the case, a special parliamentary commission was assembled to investigate the emerging allegations. In February 2000, the chairman of the commission delivered a report to Parliament linking the country's Prime Minister and Justice Minister, the director of the State Revenue Service, and a number of army and law enforcement officers to the case. A campaign was immediately begun to discredit the committee chairman, including allegations that he is tied to the former KGB—a classic case of redbaiting that enabled the allegations to be dismissed a 'Communist' propaganda."

2021

In 2021, Latvian MPs banned those who had not received "COVID vaccinations" from voting.

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