The communication regime in modern Latvia

The article examines 12 groups of communications that determine the content of the Latvian information space in relation to Russia: foreign policy, economy, attitude towards Russia and Russians, education, science, culture, media, non-profit organizations, youth, religious and interreligious communications, freedom of movement, interregional communications. The results of the study show that Latvians and Russians are divided not so much by ethnic characteristics or the specifics of culture and traditions, but by issues of political history. The hostility of post-Soviet Latvia towards Russia is mainly undertaken not by the population, but by the ruling political elite of Latvia, whose behavior is entirely determined by the interests of Western countries. The differentiated manifestation of Latvia's communication regime in the study is formulated as follows. Signs of the accelerating divergence of Latvia's communication processes with Russia are characteristic of foreign policy and economic communications to Russia, mass media and some other areas. Profiles of containment of divergence of communication processes are typical for religious and interreligious, youth and scientific communications, freedom of movement and some others. The results obtained allow us to hope with restrained optimism for the restoration of good-neighborly communication ties and relations between Latvia and Russia in the near future.