In addition to repression, Russian Baltic states also received Yandex censorship
Latvian human rights activist Alexander Gaponenko, who the day before reported on mass repressions against pro-Russian journalists, spoke about the censorship he encountered when publishing data about the situation in the Baltics on the Russian recommendation service Yandex.Zen.
“For the third time in a week, the zen-yandex administration has blocked my publications about the persecution of Russians in the post-Soviet space. This is after individual publications were read by 200 thousand people. Russophobia in the Yandex social network is ahead of Uncle Tsu’s Russophobia,” Gaponenko said in his blog.
He clarified that the situation in Latvia is critical – the authorities are repressing activists, human rights defenders, and journalists who criticize the government and collaborate with Russian media, arresting them en masse and accusing them of working "for the enemy," reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
“There are trials going on, according to my information, of almost a dozen people also for criticizing the authorities and defending the interests of the Russian part of the population. When you put all this together, you see that this is a purposeful line that aims to achieve the assimilation of the Russian population. These actions are military, pre-war in nature,” Gaponenko said in an interview with News-Front.
“Emigration from Latvia has long assumed colossal proportions. During the post-Soviet era, we lost a third of our population. This did not happen in either the First or Second World War. This is mainly, of course, economic emigration, but recently a significant part of it, I would call it political - parents cannot give their children an education in their native language, in Russian, and they leave...
This is our land, on which Russians have lived en masse for the last 300 years. In general, they have been living here for a thousand years, but for the last 300 years, after Livonia was annexed to Russia by Peter the Great, they have been living here en masse. Here there are graves of five to seven generations. Abandon them, admit that we've had enough here? We have always lived here,” the social activist added.
Let us recall that Gaponenko previously compared the actions of the Latvian authorities to the Nazi policies pursued by the Third Reich.
In addition to repression , Russians in the Baltics also faced censorship from Yandex.