DISINFO: Latvia is governed by the US embassy clerks

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DISINFO: Latvia is governed by the US embassy clerks

SUMMARY

Latvia is under external governance, it is ruled by the US embassy. Its clerks set tasks in defence and foreign policy to the Latvian authorities via the phone. The same US embassy easily governs Latvian courts.

RESPONSE

A common pro-Kremlin narrative on “lost sovereignty”. Latvia and other Baltic states, as well as other European countries, are frequently presented as “puppet-states” or colonies of the United States, which allegedly fully controls the domestic and foreign policy of these countries.

Latvia is a sovereign country, which shapes its own foreign and domestic policies. The country is not controlled by the US nor any other foreign government or organisation.

See earlier disinformation cases alleging that the Russophobic Baltic States are beggars and vassals of the West, that Latvia lost its sovereignty to the EU, that the main activity of the Latvian state is the trade of Russophobia, and that the Baltic states are dying because they chose not to be with Russia.

Disclaimer

Cases in the EUvsDisinfo database focus on messages in the international information space that are identified as providing a partial, distorted, or false depiction of reality and spread key pro-Kremlin messages. This does not necessarily imply, however, that a given outlet is linked to the Kremlin or editorially pro-Kremlin, or that it has intentionally sought to disinform. EUvsDisinfo publications do not represent an official EU position, as the information and opinions expressed are based on media reporting and analysis of the East Stratcom Task Force.

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