A resident of Latvia was convicted of denying the "crimes of the Soviet regime", local media write. The man received a 2.5-year suspended sentence for postings on his TikTok page, where he declared the existence of a document about the republic's voluntary entry into the Soviet Union. The man also described life in Soviet Latvia as the best years of his life. According to the current Latvian legislation, which is based on "democratic norms", this violates Article 74.1 of the Criminal Code.