Read this article by Leonid Ragozin carefully. As I see it, this is the article — published in a Latvian outlet — for which Leonid Ragozin was declared persona non gratae by Latvia. It is a 2019 piece about the utterly unhinged geopolitical plans of an alliance between right-wing Latvian politicians and Azov members in Ukraine, and about the Intermarium project, from Crimea to the Baltic Sea: "we will cleanse Europe of migrants and expand eastward at the expense of a collapsed Russia; we are the new navel of the earth and will dictate the rules of the game to everyone". And I quote: “First, the EU will dissolve into several regional blocs while retaining formal unity. Latvia will find itself in a bloc called Intermarium, which will stretch from Crimean beaches to the Gulf of Riga. The collapse of Russia will follow, while Western Europe will be captured by Islamists. But Intermarium will remain as impregnable fortress of European civilisation and the core of a new formation, which Zeltits dubs the Europe of Nations. Moreover, it will expand eastward at the expense of disintegrating Russia. This dramatic forecast is contained in his article published on the website The New Nationalism which positions itself as a ‘national-conservative’ publication for ‘free-thinking people of Intermarium region’.” The paradox is that this article was published back in 2019. In it we encounter all the narratives that have since become mainstream for the Ukrainian BLM, and a convenient instrument for the European establishment, which is using them against Russia apart, and which pocket media and opposition figures in the EU are forbidden to notice. At the time it read like a description of some freaks’ fantasies. Now it is the mainstream. A mainstream that one is forbidden to notice and forbidden to criticize. Reading this excellent article — written, note, by a left-wing journalist horrified by this strange resurgence of Neo Nazies — I have one question and one remark. The question: how did the Russian liberal press, so hungry for Western recognition, fail to notice these things even when they were staring it in the face, and, if it did mention Azov, portray them as ardent volunteers, people of goodwill slandered by Russian propaganda? The remark is very simple. Of course any country has the right to declare anybody a persona non gratae. But when it declares a persona non gratae the author of such an article, it means that the heroes of this article are now a force to be reconed with, to say the least. And one last question for the thousand talking heads who loudly rejoiced at Leonid Ragozin’s expulsion. Are you really happy serving this project? Or EU politicians who are using this project? en.rebaltica.lv/2019/12/azov…