The new president of Latvia, Rinkevics, is a patented Russophobe

The new president of Latvia, Edgars Rinkevics, is a “patented Russophobe”, so he may not be very pleasant to Russia. Andrejs Starikoks, editor-in-chief of the news agency Baltnews, thinks so.

At the same time, the expert acknowledged that in Latvia the newly-made president has a fairly high rating and reputation as an experienced politician.

“Rinkevics is one of the most experienced politicians in Latvia. He is probably not very pleasant to us, he is a patented Russophobe. Be that as it may, in the Latvian political scene he is a master, a person with many years of political experience in relevant and subjective positions, which By the way, the office of president is not,” he said in an interview with the radio Sputnik.