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Thank you, Mr President. We all acknowledge how important relations between the European Union and Russia are for the security and stability of the continent of Europe. The peoples of Europe, however, differ in their conceptions of the possibilities and terms of forming relations with Russia, according to their historical experiences.
The history of relations between Latvia and Russia makes me cautious, in practice, in assessing the processes taking place in Russia now. The fact that Russia’s economic growth is closely tied to the rise in energy resource prices on the world market, and has not been accompanied by social and economic reforms, does nothing to engender confidence in long
term and stable growth in that country. The parlous state of human rights in Chechnya, the increasingly clear display of authoritarian tendencies, the ever
growing focus on the glorification of Soviet totalitarianism, the return of Soviet symbolism, Russia’s refusal to acknowledge the brutal occupation of the Baltic states carried out by the Soviet Union, and yet more — just as in Chechnya, Russia shows a complete disregard for the fundamental human rights that relatives of the victims of Soviet totalitarianism have to obtain archive information on the Soviet Union’s executioners, coupled with Russia’s delays of almost 10 years in signing the border agreement with Latvia. These are the realities of today’s Russia, and they make me worried."@en1
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