{"id":47602,"date":"2026-06-04T13:03:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T10:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/?p=47602"},"modified":"2026-06-04T13:31:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T10:31:54","slug":"latvia-warns-of-russias-lawfare-against-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/international-threats-en\/europe\/latvia-warns-of-russias-lawfare-against-west\/","title":{"rendered":"Latvia warns of russia&#8217;s &#8216;lawfare&#8217; against West"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Latvian Constitution Protection Bureau, the kremlin is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sab.gov.lv\/files\/uploads\/2026\/06\/SAB_publiskais_zinojums_2_Juridiska-karadarbiba.pdf\">preparing<\/a> a new stage of hybrid aggression involving a large-scale &#8220;legal war&#8221; against Western countries.<\/p>\n<p>Moscow plans to use the tools of international and national law of European states not to seek justice, but as a weapon to weaken democratic countries.<\/p>\n<p>The main directions will be challenging sanctions, declaring Western officials and public figures internationally wanted, accusing persecution of russian speakers, as well as fabricating fakes about mass human rights violations.<\/p>\n<p>russia aims to turn international law into a tool of hybrid warfare. The legal system of the democratic world is a target of the kremlin. The goal of the russian federation is to paralyze decision-making by Western governments, forcing them to spend resources on legal proceedings, and to undermine trust in international institutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Latvian Constitution Protection Bureau, the kremlin is preparing a new stage of hybrid aggression involving a large-scale &#8220;legal war&#8221; against Western countries. Moscow plans to use the tools of international and national law of European states not to seek justice, but as a weapon to weaken democratic countries. The main directions will&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":47603,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","wds_primary_category":932,"footnotes":""},"categories":[932],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}