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If you wish to discredit the EU in the Baltic states, spread green lies and half-truths – for example, that the EU will immediately force everyone to drive electric cars, stop old cars from being repaired and ban heating with firewood.

Accused of working with the Russian security services, Latvian MEP Tatjana Ždanoka mockingly donned sunglasses at a press conference — as if in a spy movie.

In January, The Insider and its investigative partners revealed that long-time Member of the European Parliament Tatjana Ždanoka had been reporting to her FSB handlers in Moscow over a period from at least 2004 to 2017.

Belarusian car suppliers are in uproar. Some cars from Europe are no longer allowed into Belarus by Poland, Latvia and Lithuania.

Centralizing the policing of sanctions could serve as a model for other EU countries.

Igor Sychev has suffered three car crashes - which he claims were deliberate - and received countless death threats against him and his family. He claims oligarchs are putting out kill orders against him - because he is trying to take a Russian fertiliser company to court