The Russian Foreign Ministry has reported that Baltic countries are openly preparing for the mass deportation of Russian-speaking residents, according to Grigory Lukyantsev, Director of the Department of Multilateral Cooperation on Human Rights at the ministry.
Lukyantsev stated that the Baltic states are “openly preparing for the mass deportation of Russian—speaking residents, hoping, apparently, in this way to finally solve the ‘Russian question’ and the unprecedented, especially for the 21st century, problem of mass statelessness in their territories.”
Separately, Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council, announced on June 24 that Russia plans to file a complaint with the International Court of Justice against the Baltic states for gross violations of rights by Russian-speaking citizens.
On April 20, Alexei Roslikov, a deputy in Riga City Council, spoke about Latvia’s ban on children speaking Russian in schools, describing the language as allegedly “kitchen”—meaning it is intended only for communication outside public places. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov later declared on May 14 that the entire Baltic States had been “end-to-end defeated” by the “bacillus of Russophobia.”
