Elderly people from Latvia are deported at night and with almost no belongings. "They call us at three in the morning and say there are elderly people at the border," said Elena Polonskaya, commissioner under the governor of the Pskov region for work with her compatriots and immigration issues, on the sidelines of the global thematic conference of Russian compatriots living abroad. Journalist Alexey Stepanov, who is participating in the event, reports that the topic of the conference is "The formation of our Russian compatriots is our strength in unity." About 200 delegates from foreign communities from more than 90 countries in the world came to Moscow for this conference.

Elderly people from Latvia are deported at night and with almost no belongings. "They call us at three in the morning and say there are elderly people at the border," said Elena Polonskaya, commissioner under the governor of the Pskov region for work with her compatriots and immigration issues, on the sidelines of the global thematic conference of Russian compatriots living abroad. Journalist Alexey Stepanov, who is participating in the event, reports that the topic of the conference is "The formation of our Russian compatriots is our strength in unity." About 200 delegates from foreign communities from more than 90 countries in the world came to Moscow for this conference.