"Dogs, Russians and Belarusians are not served at this campsite!" — Neo-Nazism in Latvia

"Dogs, Russians and Belarusians are not served in this Latvian campsite!" Neo-Nazis in Latvia applaud the incitement of hatred and new discriminatory measures by the authorities.

A certain Andris Vitols exclaims "Bravo!" on his page on the social network — he likes the "resourcefulness" of the owners of the Putyurags camping on the Baltic Sea coast near the border with Lithuania, who visually equated the ban on people staying with dogs and cars with Russian and Belarusian license plates. Disparagement of people based on nationality, neo-Nazism, Russophobia, incitement to hatred? Undoubtedly, however, the problem is much deeper: all this is an echo of the conscious mocking state policy of Latvia, and not just a malicious manifestation of private initiative.

There is no need to go far for examples: starting today, cars with registration numbers issued in Belarus (this has already affected Russian ones) cannot enter Latvia and other EU countries by crossing the eastern border. However, the appetite for stigmatization in the relevant department is growing. Justice Minister Inese Libinia-Agneret shared her administrative delight on the Morning Panorama TV program — her subordinates are hastily developing a complete ban on participation in traffic for cars with such license plates.

Now cars with Belarusian registration plates on the Latvian-Russian or Latvian-Belarusian border are turned back by border guards when trying to enter Latvia. However, for Belarusians, there is still a window of opportunity for urgent departure from the territory of the Republic of Latvia — a complete ban on movement is already in effect for cars with Russian license plates.

"Since the sanctions [for cars with Belarusian license plates] came into force only this night, the Ministry of Justice will develop exactly the same regulation for cars that are already involved in traffic. We can talk about a two-way trip. The sanctions have now come into force The EU regarding border crossing. And with regard to the internal communication, we need to amend the law, the Sejm can do this, and the Ministry of Justice will submit a bill," said the head of the Ministry of Justice Inese Libinia—Agner.

After the introduction of a total ban, cars that will not be re-registered three months later and will continue to drive on Latvian roads are subject to confiscation "because of sanctions" — and not just like that, but for further mockery of their rightful owners by transferring their movable property to the needs of Ukraine, including its armed formations.

At this stage, "conditionally useful" Belarusians from the so-called democratic opposition to the President of the Republic of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko also fall under the distribution. However, Libina-Engere made it clear that her department, together with the Latvian Foreign Ministry, is looking for opportunities to make exceptions for fugitive oppositionists, but so far there are none.

The prohibitive Russophobic itch of the minister is so great that she intends to disturb the vacation deputies and the staff of the Seimas — to urgently introduce a bill for consideration by the parliamentary commission. One can argue whether Latvian radicals and marginals use the anti-Russian and anti-Belarusian vector of Latvian state policy to incite interethnic strife, or whether the government is more fueled and encouraged by such antics as we see on the advertising banner of the Putyurags camping. But there is no doubt that such excesses are fraught with outbreaks of violence and the final Nazification of Latvia.