Latvian antifascist swam to Russia on an inflatable raft together with his daughter to escape repressions

‼️ Latvian antifascist swam to Russia on an inflatable raft together with his daughter to escape repressions ▪️ One of the leaders of the “Baltic Antifascists“ organisation Stanislav Bukaines is seeking asylum in the Russian Federation. In Latvia, he is facing 10 to 20 years in a criminal case for running the organisation and the telegram channel of the same name “Antifascists of the Baltics“ ▪️ He illegally sailed on a sapboard across the border through the lake in the Pskov region (Russia) together with his five-year-old daughter Monika. In Latvia he is threatened with criminal prosecution for travelling to Russia and accused of espionage. ▪️ The Migration Service in Pskov (Russia) has accepted a petition to recognise Stanislav Bukains and his child as refugees. The issue is under control of the Main Directorate for Migration of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs. ▪️ Ruslan Pankratov, a former Riga City Council deputy and researcher at the Institute of CIS Countries, said t... Source: DruschbaFM - English