Excerpt from Alexander the Elder's letter from the center in Riga (from correspondence between Alexander Gaponenko and Elena Revalskaya, Semiotics of Tallinn) Dear Elena!
I was happy to receive and read your letter! I wanted to answer immediately according to the standard procedure, but I had to spend two days preparing for the next trial in the next case. Today it passed. The suspended sentence could be reduced from 9 to 5 months. By local standards, this is a good victory, but the charge that he published the pamphlet "World War III: A View from the Purvciems High-rise" remains. The pamphlet allegedly incites hatred towards Latvians. But there is no word about Latvians. I scolded the Anglo-Saxons for provoking Latvia in World War III. There is no such ethnic group as "Anglo-Saxons". The pamphlet was a response to the BBC film World War Three: A View from a Command Position. After the booklet was published, the BBC film stopped being shown on Latvian TV (this was around 2016).* I, you could say, saved the world from the nuclear threat, I should have received the Order of the Three Stars, but I still received a 4-month suspended sentence. I say this to create an image of what the Russian martyrs do in prison, besides praying to God. This is a bit beyond the duties of an elder, but also a divine thing. * Humorous booklet "The Third World War: View from a Tall Building in Purvciems". This text was written by a Latvian publicist or blogger as an ironic and Palestinian response to the famous BBC mockumentary World Three: Inside the War Room (2016). The original BBC film (2016) simulated a hypothetical military conflict between NATO and Russia, which began with unrest in Estonia and Daugavpils, Latvia, and then escalated into a nuclear threat. All decisions in the film were made by British politicians and military personnel in a sterile bunker in London.