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Linards Grantiņš, the Glossary

Linards Grantiņš (born 1950) is a Latvian former human rights activist who was among the founders of the Latvian human rights activist group Helsinki-86 in 1986.^[1]

19 relations: Amber, Capital punishment, Freedom Monument, Helsinki-86, Human rights, June deportation, Latvian language, Latvians, Latvijas Avīze, Liepāja, On the Restoration of Independence of the Republic of Latvia, Online hate speech, Operation Priboi, Order of the Three Stars, Siberia, Singing Revolution, Valērijs Agešins, West Germany, World War II.
20th-century Latvian people
Latvian dissidents
People from Siberia

Amber

Amber is fossilized tree resin.

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Capital punishment

Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty and formerly called judicial homicide, is the state-sanctioned killing of a person as punishment for actual or supposed misconduct.

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Freedom Monument

The Freedom Monument (Brīvības piemineklis) is a monument located in Riga, Latvia, honouring soldiers killed during the Latvian War of Independence (1918–1920).

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The CTAG (Cilvēktiesību aizstāvības grupa, Human Rights Defense Group) Helsinki-86 was founded on 10 July 1986 in the Latvian port town of Liepāja by three workers: Linards Grantiņš, Raimonds Bitenieks, and Mārtiņš Bariss.

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Human rights

Human rights are moral principles or normsJames Nickel, with assistance from Thomas Pogge, M.B.E. Smith, and Leif Wenar, 13 December 2013, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy,.

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June deportation

The June deportation of 1941 (juuniküüditamine, jūnija deportācijas, birželio trėmimai) was a mass deportation of tens of thousands of people during World War II from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, present-day western Belarus and western Ukraine, and present-day Moldova – territories which had been occupied by the Soviet Union in 1939–1940 – into the interior of the Soviet Union.

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Latvian language

Latvian (latviešu valoda), also known as Lettish, is an East Baltic language belonging to the Indo-European language family.

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Latvians

Latvians (latvieši) are a Baltic ethnic group and nation native to Latvia and the immediate geographical region, the Baltics.

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Latvijas Avīze

Latvijas Avīze (Latvian Newspaper) is a national conservative Latvian language national daily newspaper in Latvia, published in Riga.

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Liepāja

Liepāja is a state city in western Latvia, located on the Baltic Sea.

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On the Restoration of Independence of the Republic of Latvia

The Declaration "On the Restoration of Independence of the Republic of Latvia".

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Online hate speech

Online hate speech is a type of speech that takes place online with the purpose of attacking a person or a group based on their race, religion, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, disability, and/or gender.

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Operation Priboi

Operation Priboi (Операция «Прибой» – Operation "Tidal Wave") was the code name for the biggest Stalin-era Soviet mass deportation from the Baltic states on 25–28 March 1949.

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Order of the Three Stars

Order of the Three Stars (Triju Zvaigžņu ordenis) is the highest civilian order awarded for meritorious service to Latvia.

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Siberia

Siberia (Sibir') is an extensive geographical region comprising all of North Asia, from the Ural Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east.

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Singing Revolution

The Singing Revolution was a series of events from 1987 to 1991 that led to the restoration of independence of the three Soviet-occupied Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania at the end of the Cold War.

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Valērijs Agešins

Valērijs Agešins (born June 23, 1972 in Liepāja) is a Latvian politician and lawyer.

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West Germany

West Germany is the common English name for the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) from its formation on 23 May 1949 until the reunification with East Germany on 3 October 1990. The Cold War-era country is sometimes known as the Bonn Republic (Bonner Republik) after its capital city of Bonn. During the Cold War, the western portion of Germany and the associated territory of West Berlin were parts of the Western Bloc.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linards_Grantiņš

Also known as Linards Grantins, Tautastribunals.