Latvian Foreign Minister Rinkevičs Opens Up About Holiday Celebrations and Security Concerns in Eve Magazine Interview

“Actually, I don’t celebrate holidays very much. Almost not at all,” says Rinkevičs.

When asked why that is, he answers: “I don’t even know. There is no internal need for time. Maybe November 18 is a little different – there is both a holiday and an obligation for me, but usually a holiday for me is more of a moment when I recharge my batteries.

I don’t even know what I’m going to do this Christmas – now I’m going to have to make some pretty big changes in my usual routine, which is determined by the fact that there’s a security guard.

I even sometimes, jokingly, say – I have the feeling that someone is following me all the time (ironically theatrical), and they seem to be everywhere… Seriously, my security guys are very professional and discreet, but I know they are somewhere. You just have to take that into account in this job.”

But he recalls an amusing Christmas celebration. “The most interesting Christmas I ever had was when I was ten or eleven years old. Despite the times of scarcity, my mother had somehow gotten tangerines, about two kilograms.

She thought she had successfully hidden them before the holiday, but I found them just as successfully. And I ate all two kilograms just as successfully, snacking on gingerbread in between.

After a couple of hours it got so bad that an ambulance came and I spent Christmas and New Years in Sloka Hospital. After that, I couldn’t look at tangerines or gingerbread for a year. Everyone was very scared, no one could understand what was wrong – I didn’t admit that I had eaten tangerines for a long time. I was lying in the hospital and felt like the most unhappy person in the whole wide universe.”

Read more from the magazine “Eve” In the issue of December 20!

2023-12-22 22:05:26


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