MP Pagors gets warning for speaking Russian inside Saeima building

On 3 November, the first working day of the 15th Saeima, Andrejs Pagors posted a video on the social media platform ‘TikTok’ in which he spoke in Russian about the agenda for the first sitting. The MP explained that he had wanted to address his constituents and share with them what an MP’s work in the Saeima entails. He claimed he was unaware that speaking in Russian was prohibited.

In its submission to the committee, the Presidium of the Saeima had asked the committee to assess a ...