According to the President of the Latvian Roma Federation Osvald Jezdovskis, the situation with Roma organizations in Latvia is reminiscent of the gangster times of the nineties of the last century. He called on President Edgars Rinkević and Prime Minister Evika Silina to take part in them in order to protect the Latvian Roma Federation from groups that “monopolized state funding”, which should have been used for the benefit of the Roma.

Few things to relativise: There are several well stablished Roma organisations who indeed get funding from the state. To say that they monopolize the funds in this particular case means most probably that the Latvian Roma Federation was left out … The source, in Russian, may also show some bias.

• Президент ромов: ситуация с организациями ромов напоминает бандитские времена 90-х годов. Rus TVNet. 04.01.2023. https://rus.tvnet.lv/7931279/prezident-romov-situaciya-s-organizaciyami-romov-napominaet-banditskie-vremena-90-h-godov