Destroying the Soviet Monument in Your Head: An interview with the newly elected President of Latvia, Edgars Rinkēvičs

The Eastern Border

Kristaps Andrejsons

Cold War, Politics, Soviet, Society & Culture, History, Ussr, News

4.6 • 851 Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Greetings, Comrades! I'm honored to present you an interview recorded yesterday on 05.06 with our newly elected president. We spoke about Latvian internal issues, diaspora problems, cooperation with our NATO allies and Ukraine, how to communicate our issues to the west - and how to deal with the postsoviet mentality that sadly so many of us still have.

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1:42.9	This, as you can see from the title, is our interview with our newly elected president of
1:47.1	Latvia, Edgar St. Kavich.
1:49.3	I do have to admit, I didn't pay him justice when I was talking about him in the episode
1:56.6	with Yuris Khazha.
1:57.4	He exceeded my expectations, massively.
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