• Security Police initiated two criminal cases on glorification, denial or justification of genocide
• “All for Latvia!” officially united with For Fatherland and Freedom/LNIM
• Commemorative event “Steps of Alive” held in the centre of Riga

The Security Police initiated two criminal cases on glorification, denial or justification of genocide. The first case is against the organisers of the procession devoted to the entry of Nazi troops to Riga on 1 July 1941. As reported, despite the court’s permission to hold the event, the municipal police stopped the procession due to absence of its official organiser Uldis Freimanis who couple of hours earlier got called to the Security Police for conversation. The second criminal case is initiated against author of an article about deportation of Latvian civil residents by Soviet authorities in 1941. The author of the article published on an Internet portal stated that the deportations were too soft and unfinished. Chas

Nationalist parties “All for Latvia!” and For Fatherland and Freedom/LNIM officially united with an aim to run together in the up-coming Saeima’s elections. The union declared it will pursue national conservative policies aimed at securing the future of Latvia in the European family of countries as ethnically Latvian, democratic, economically prosperous state which guarantees existence and development of ethnic Latvian nation. Chas, Vesti Segodnya, Diena, Neatkariga

Latvian and foreign officials including the President of Latvia Valdis Zatlers and members of Jewish NGOs held a commemorative event and procession “Steps of Alive” in the centre of Riga on 4 July – the official commemoration Day of the Holocaust Victims. Chas, Vesti Segodnya, Telegraf, Diena, Neatkariga