Baltics being normal.
It alreasy took Lithuania 13 years to get around to ratifying the treaty (just last year).
The president has vetoed the bill for now.
My father in law was ranting about the Baltics being wholesome freedom defenders this weekend lol
Average reddit country behavior.
b-but they escaped the evil fascist soviet union so they could be free and democratic and pro-lgbtq and feminist
these fuckers were dragged kicking and screaming into sapience by the soviet union and they’ve been malding about it ever since
We saved them from the Germans and they never forgave us for it” Zhukov
A day before the vote, around 5,000 people demonstrated outside the parliament, carrying signs reading “Hands off the Istanbul Convention” and “Latvia is not Russia.”
Tamar Dekanosidze, the Eurasia regional representative for women’s rights NGO Equality Now, said the bill attempted to reframe gender equality initiatives as pushing an “LGBTQ agenda,” adopting a Kremlin-style narrative that allows politicians to portray themselves as defenders of “national values” ahead of elections.
“This would mean that, in terms of values, legal systems and governance, Latvia would be more aligned with Russia than with the European Union and Western countries,” she said, adding that this “directly serves Russia’s interests in the country.”
“What are we, a bunch of RUSSIANS?” Very predictable.
This is the only permissible way for liberals to frame human rights issues in Eastern European and Baltic countries.
