A Latvian MP, accused of betraying his country's national interests, has been deprived of his observer seat in the European Parliament by the Latvian Parliament, the Saeima, in Riga.
Socialist MP Martijans Bekasovs, who joined the GUE (European United left and Nordic Green) group in the European Parliament, circulated a letter to MEPs mid-September about minority rights in Latvia.
In the letter, Mr Bekasovs said that non-citizens in Latvia, the vast majority of them Russian, ...
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