РЕФЛЕКСИИ ЛАТВИИ НА РОССИЙСКУЮ ГИБРИДНУЮ АГРЕССИЮ В УКРАИНЕ: КЕЙС ПОЛИТИКИ ПАМЯТИ
LATVIA'S REFLECTIONS OF RUSSIAN HYBRID AGGRESSION UPON UKRAINE: POLITICS OF MEMORY CASE

Summary/Abstract: The article investigates the influence of Russian hybrid aggression upon Ukraine over politics of memory securitization in Latvia. It shows that research paradigm of Latvian reflections of Ukrainian events in the field of politics of memory supposes interrelationship between politics of memory, historical memory, and security, based on understanding of their constructivist nature and fundamental importance for national identity maintenance. The article clarifies that Russian aggression upon Ukraine using historical memory as public awareness weapons has determined re-actualization of historical experience and collective trauma of Latvians associated with the Soviet occupation and has accelerated the national narrative securitization. This securitization has been carried out in the following directions: fixing of historical memory as national security element in official documents; harsher criminal liability for communist regime glorification, justification, and denial; expansion of prohibition on communist symbols use; inclusion of national narrative with communist regime condemnation in the policy of memory at the EU level.

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