The Latvian Foreign Minister compared Russia to the Third Reich. Pushkov suggested responding to this with sanctions
The chairman of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs, Alexei Pushkov, in a harsh form, responded to the words of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Latvia Edgar Rinkevich, who compared Russia with the German Reich of the First and Second World Wars. "When the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Latvia allows himself this kind of statements, he must understand that on our part are steps that will cause a serious blow to the interests of Latvia - economic, trading, some other.