Latvia, this active critic of the Kremlin’s policy, was not averse to secretly using Russian services.. As it turned out, the capital of the Republic of Riga is being landscaped by the company Giprostroymost, entered into the sanctions lists of the United States and the European Union for participating in the construction of the Crimean bridge. In 2016. Giprostroymost together with two Latvian enterprises won the tender announced by the Riga City Council to design a three-kilometer overpass between Piedrujas and Zemgale gatve streets. And two weeks ago, Igor Kolyshev, technical director of Giprostroymost, who has been engaged in designing bridges in Latvia since 2004,. , a new unlimited certificate for the provision of services in Latvia was issued. At the same time, in the Latvian company Vektors T, which cooperates with the Russians, they confirmed that they were aware of Giprostroyst’s participation in building the crossing through the Kerch Strait, but did not receive instructions from the authorities to abandon joint projects with this company, told TV3 TV channel.

Riga City Council noted that the contract with Giprostroymost was concluded before the introduction of sanctions against this company. They do not agree with the comment of the representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Latvia that legal entities of Latvia should be responsible for contacts with organizations against which sanctions are imposed. Traffic on the Crimean Bridge launched in May 2018. At the end of July, the European Union imposed sanctions against six Russian companies that took part in the construction of the crossing to the peninsula, which Ukraine still considers its.