Latvia starts criminal proceedings against an EU Parliament lawmaker suspected of spying for Russia
Latvia´s state security service has started criminal proceedings against an European Parliament lawmaker and a citizen of the Baltic country who is suspected of cooperating with Russian intelligence and security services, according to Latvian media reports Saturday.
Latvian media outlets reported that the security service, known by the abbreviation VDD, has been investigating the activities of Tatjana Ždanoka, 73, and her alleged Russia ties over the past several weeks since reports were published in January by Russian, Nordic and Baltic news sites saying that she has been an agent for the Russian Federal Security Service, or FSB, since at least 2004.
According to news agency LETA, the Latvian security service decided to start a criminal process against Ždanoka on Feb. 22. The security service couldn’t immediately be reached for comment. Ždanoka has denied all the allegations against her.
Why the fuck!! Do they put a picture of European Parliament President Roberta Metsola, right beneath the headline about a completely different person, Tatjana Ždanoka who is the alleged spy?
That shit should be illegal, people will see the image of Metsola and think she is that bad person.
THIS IS THE PERSON IN QUESTION:
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/28619/TATJANA_ZDANOKA/home
How hard can it be to put up a picture of the right person? Even the text beneath the picture is confusing, and implicates Metsola unless you read it carefully!!
This is extremely shitty journalism, Metsola isn't mentioned anywhere in the article, and the picture of her is completely unrelated to the story! Are they trying to smear her?
What a fucking shit site to boot. I tried reporting the article so they could change it, not one link for giving feedback. AP sends out the message that they don't care about facts,
dusjust clicks.I found it.
It's under "contact us" at the bottom of the page:
https://apnews.com/contact-us
Choosing "For feedback or corrections on an AP story, please use this form."
Will give you the feedback option:
https://www.ap.org/contact-us/contact-the-newsroom/
But IDK if I want to trust them with my contact info?
Their privacy terms are a bit lengthy making them somewhat obscure:
https://www.ap.org/privacy-policy/
Tough call mate, personally I wouldn't risk it. Unless you have some fake email and login info laying around.
Maybe reporting it to the cabinet of said duped politician will help more?
You know I was oohing and aahing over how fucking young this woman looked at 73. Wrong picture makes more sense.
I was fr going to snoop this random parliamentarian's instagram for skincare tips.
AI don't care.
I had to think a bit about this one.
But that could be the explanation, the article is about a member of European Parliament, so the AI decides to show a picture of the president of it, as a "prime example" of a member?
It's like whoever/whatever included that picture has a complete lack of sense of context and significance. Which could more easily be ascribed to an AI than a human being.
It would also explain the somewhat confusing text for the picture, that seems like an attempt to connect the picture to the content of the article, where there is no connection apart from "European Parliament lawmaker".
Yep. It was the first image that probably came across in the scrape of information, so it slapped her photo on the story. AP should immediately swap out her photo with the accused and apologize profusely.
She is 73!?
This is extremely shitty journalism, implying Roberta Metsola despite she has nothing to do with it. There is NOTHING in the story about her. Yet they put her picture right beneath the headline, without any context to the story.
Wow. That is wild.
I agree, they should be fined for that IMO.
Can she sue them?
The woman in the image preview is not the same woman they're investigating.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Latvian media outlets reported that the security service, known by the abbreviation VDD, has been investigating the activities of Tatjana Ždanoka, 73, and her alleged Russia ties over the past several weeks since reports were published in January by Russian, Nordic and Baltic news sites saying that she has been an agent for the Russian Federal Security Service, or FSB, since at least 2004.
According to news agency LETA, the Latvian security service decided to start a criminal process against Ždanoka on Feb. 22.
The European Parliament said late January that it had opened an investigation into news reports that a Latvian member of the assembly — Ždanoka — has been working as a Russian agent for several years.
Expressen claimed that Ždanoka has been spreading propaganda about alleged violations of the rights of Russians living in Baltic countries and arguing for a pro-Kremlin policy, among other things.
Latvia, a Baltic nation of 1.9 million people, and neighboring Estonia, are both home to a sizable ethnic Russian minority of about 25% of the population.
Ždanoka’s resume, which is posted on the European Parliament website, lists her as the president of the EU Russian-Speakers’ Alliance, a nongovernmental organization, since 2007.
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