INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
A court in Latvia has sentenced a pro-Kremlin activist to three years in prison for publicly displaying Russian and Soviet flags,
the Latvian capital of Riga
The Latvian-born housewife, who only speaks Russian, faces 15 administrative cases for using banned symbols in public, according to the
Riga-based investigative project Re:Baltica.The Riga City Court found Kreile guilty of publicly praising and justifying Russian war crimes
Delfi.Prosecutors had requested a 3.5-year prison sentence for Kreile, whose five days served in detention would count toward her three-year
diplomatic ties with Moscow after it invaded Ukraine in 2022.Around a quarter of the population of Latvia, which became an EU and NATO
member a decade and a half after gaining independence from the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, is made up of ethnic Russians.
