The newly passed law forbids Russian and Belarusian citizens, as well as companies that are at least 25 percent owned by them, from acquiring property in Latvia \u2014 but provides exceptions for EU and Latvian permanent residence holders from Russia and Belarus, Belarusian refugees and repatriates.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a step to limit the influence and presence in Latvia of persons and companies that are adverse to the country,\u201d said Agnese Krasta<\/a>, a lawmaker who coauthored the bill.<\/p>\n On Thursday, Latvia also joined a coalition of seven Nordic and Baltic countries that want a Schengen ban<\/a> on Russian citizens who fought in the war against Ukraine from entering the Schengen Area.\u00a0<\/p>\n Last week, Latvian lawmakers required citizens of Russia and Belarus to get a security clearance to work<\/a> on critical infrastructure, such as energy facilities and hospitals, and barred Latvian officials from traveling to Russia.<\/p>\n In Finland, a ban<\/a> on Russians buying real estate was imposed in April, and Lithuanian lawmakers passed<\/a> a similar measure in 2023.\u00a0<\/p>\n As Russian President Vladimir Putin wages war on Ukraine, the Baltic nations are preparing for a possible future Russian invasion, readying their hospitals<\/a> and drafting mass evacuation plans<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The newly passed law forbids Russian and Belarusian citizens, as well as companies that are at least 25…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[767,13508,2000,46647,299,769,1113,1114,657,771,335],"class_list":{"0":"post-201498","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-baltics","9":"tag-cyber-warfare","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-eu-russia-relations","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-finland","14":"tag-latvia","15":"tag-lithuania","16":"tag-ukraine","17":"tag-war","18":"tag-war-in-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114719179674342874","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}