10/17 he was instrumental to getting the votes of the Russian-speaking people in Tallinn’s Lasnamäe district. But in this year’s elections, deputy mayor Mihhal Kõlvart (Center) got more than7times as many votes as Savisaar, &the Center Party still got an absolute majority on the city council w
9/10Some ofLatvia’s politicalparties refused to cooperate with Saskaņa becauseof its ties to United Russia, which put it in a similar position as Estonia’s Center Party. Until the end of the Savisaar era&PM Ratas’ election to the position ofCenterParty chairman,the party was relatively isolat
10/9 Riga mayor& Saskaņa (Harmony)Party leader Nils Ušakovs〜said that asSaskaņa had joined the Party of European Socialists, &as the latter arranged their cooperation with non-EU parties in a centralized manner,the agreement with United Russia “lapsed in 2016”&“has lost its applicability
In 2008, he labeled the Russia–Georgia War as a "Georgian attack" on "Russian peacekeepers" &ended his article with the statement that Finland should not discuss NATO membership because "it could create the impression that Finland is moving from cooperation to confrontation"
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