The Duma screams sanctions while Latvia yawns

Nov 25, 1999
By J. Michael Lyons

RIGA — As Moscow's campaign season began to churn toward next month's parliamentary elections, Russia's Duma blew steam at Latvia last week by easily passing legislation that would impose drastic economic sanctions and further chill already frosty relations between the two countries, at odds over Latvia's treatment of its ethnic Russian minority.Latvian government officials and foreign relations observers label the sanctions, which would bar any trade between Russian individuals, companies or go ...

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