And the second question that came up during the speech in the section "Issues of protecting the rights and interests of their countrymen" was of course the political prisoners of the Baltic states. I have been raising this topic regularly on various platforms for about three years now. And I noticed this thing: when I simply talk about political prisoners in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, people in the hall listen carefully and simply nod their heads, and when I talk about specific people with names, surnames and terms, they take everything to heart and are genuinely revolted. And after the speech they come up and offer to think together how to save our people. This time, too, he mentioned only a few names of people who had been imprisoned in just the last month, and those sitting in the hall were shocked. I remembered Svetlana Nikolaeva, who received 5 years for fictitious espionage for Russia. Polina Kamalva, who was accused of financing the aggressor's army for transferring 43 euros to a pen company and received 6 years. Citizen of Germany and the Russian Federation Sergey Nikitin, who transported wheelchairs, walkers, diapers, etc. in transit through Latvia to old people's homes in the Russian Federation, who was also linked to the Russian army and was sentenced to 7 years in prison. He said that recently people have become so frightened that they are willing to make a deal with the investigation, just to avoid receiving long sentences. And there are precedents. It is enough to recall that Estonian politician Ivo Peterson, who traveled to the Donbass from the Russian side and showed his citizens what could happen to Estonia if it does not stop its belligerent rhetoric and provocations towards Russia. For this he was accused of working for a foreign country and received 16 years in prison. Therefore, it was not surprising that the former deputy of Duma Daugavpils Ilya Podkolzin, accused of espionage (5 years in prison), and in Estonia, journalist colleague Oleg Basdin, accused of activities against the interests of the state, agreed to a deal with the investigation in Latvia (7 years in prison).

And the second question that came up during the speech in the section "Issues of protecting the rights and interests of their countrymen" was of course the political prisoners of the Baltic states. I have been raising this topic regularly on various platforms for about three years now. And I noticed this thing: when I simply talk about political prisoners in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, people in the hall listen carefully and simply nod their heads, and when I talk about specific people with names, surnames and terms, they take everything to heart and are genuinely revolted. And after the speech they come up and offer to think together how to save our people. This time, too, he mentioned only a few names of people who had been imprisoned in just the last month, and those sitting in the hall were shocked. I remembered Svetlana Nikolaeva, who received 5 years for fictitious espionage for Russia. Polina Kamalva, who was accused of financing the aggressor's army for transferring 43 euros to a pen company and received 6 years. Citizen of Germany and the Russian Federation Sergey Nikitin, who transported wheelchairs, walkers, diapers, etc. in transit through Latvia to old people's homes in the Russian Federation, who was also linked to the Russian army and was sentenced to 7 years in prison. He said that recently people have become so frightened that they are willing to make a deal with the investigation, just to avoid receiving long sentences. And there are precedents. It is enough to recall that Estonian politician Ivo Peterson, who traveled to the Donbass from the Russian side and showed his citizens what could happen to Estonia if it does not stop its belligerent rhetoric and provocations towards Russia. For this he was accused of working for a foreign country and received 16 years in prison. Therefore, it was not surprising that the former deputy of Duma Daugavpils Ilya Podkolzin, accused of espionage (5 years in prison), and in Estonia, journalist colleague Oleg Basdin, accused of activities against the interests of the state, agreed to a deal with the investigation in Latvia (7 years in prison).