Latvia's relationship to Russia

The British magazine "The Economist" has listed Latvia among those European states through which Russia could influence the West. Aivars Ozolins doesn't quite agree: "The article offers no proof. The Latvian foreign ministry will naturally reject this charge, calling the presentation of Moscow's influence on Latvia exaggerated, and refer to the recent ejection of a Russian diplomat. But even if the picture is exaggerated, it's worth asking why the EU increasingly calls us Russia's Trojan horse, and mentions us in the same breath with states like Serbia or Bulgaria – not good company. In the case of Bulgaria, it's obvious, because Sofia recently signed a contract [with Russia] for construction of a gas pipeline through the Black Sea, signing it without consideration of Ukraine and Poland."

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