Andrei Sannikov: «After European March every use of police club will hit the authorities on the head»

15 October in Riga the conference Europe at the Crossroads: Agenda from Riga to Bucharest took place. Meaning NATO Summit that took place last year in Riga and NATO Summit that would be held in Bucharest next year. It is a traditional Riga conference, with the main points being security, development of the European integration, Trans-Atlantic cooperation. As a rule, the high-ranked official representatives of Europe and the USA and the heads of the Baltic States take part in the conference. This year President of Estonia H.E. Toomas Hendrik Ilves, former President of Latvia Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga and current Persident Valdis Zatlers took part in the conference. The representatives of the states outside the European Union, in particular, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova also participated. Belarus was represented by Iryna Krasouskaya, head of the foundation “We Remember” and Andrei Sannikov, international coordinator of Charter’97.