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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.

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[–] AstroStelar@hexbear.net 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 5 months ago

This is the only permissible way for liberals to frame human rights issues in Eastern European and Baltic countries.