The Belgian police raided the apartment on Nov. 7 of former European Parliament Member Tatjana Ždanoka in Brussels, on a search order issued by a Belgian judge, at the request of Latvia’s general prosecutor. As Ms. Ždanoka explained, in an October interview she gave to EIR, the accusations raised against her are purely political: she has been involved in 1) consolidation of the Community of Russian-speakers in Latvia, and 2) disseminating information on discriminatory policies against the Community.
Tatjana Ždanoka was a Member of the European Parliament for the 20 years over 2004-2024. During her mandates, she had fought for the rights of 9 million Russian-speaking minorities in the European Union, above all in her native country of Latvia, and then in the other two Baltic republics, Estonia and Lithuania, threatened by nationalistic regimes in those countries. After Russia launched its special military operation in February 2022 in Ukraine, repression of those minorities intensified and their representatives were persecuted.
