Russian compatriots from the Baltic countries will hold two major events in the Moscow House in Riga, on August 27-28, reported their organizers to BNS.

On Saturday from 15.30 to 18.30, a round-table discussion on “Legal Status of Russians in the Baltic States” will be held, and on Sunday a regional conference of Russian compatriots in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, “The rights of minorities - a necessary condition for democracy and integration society in the Baltic States” will take place.
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For the adherents of liberal democracy, the news from Russia over the past few years have not been not rosy.

Twenty years ago they said that Russia put the interests of political reforms before economic reform themselves, but China, in contrast, began with reforms.
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Abkhazia is an example of a democratic state, said a famous political scientist and broadcaster Maxim Shevchenko, who was present on the presidential elections in Abkhazia as an observer of the Public Chamber of Russia.

“I can say that I was deeply impressed.
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