she had latvian citizenship, so legally we could not kick her out.  in autumn of 2023, in force came law, that for citizens of russian federation, they need to prove that they know latvian language on very basic level (a2). from around 50k living here, 2k ignored that requirement, and around march they got letters which asks them to leave country withing 30 days. there was also presidental elections of russia. and there was local russians going to those elections. according to polls, there was significant support to v.putin. police could not check, was they pro-putin persons. but they could check, do they have visas or residence permits in order. about 5 of them did not had valid documents permiting to stay in a country, and got order to leave country withing 48 hours. we are helping to return russians back to russia. we are helping them to become more... russian.
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