Western Latvians could be key to referendum
Jul 30, 1998
Steven C. Johnson
RIGA – Latvian politics can be full of ironies, curiosities and contradictions. Sifting through the legislative, cultural and psychological debris of half a decade of Soviet subjugation will do that to a country.Today, as it prepares for what could be the first ever public referendum in its history, Latvians are seeing one of those grand ironies up close. The referendum will ask citizens whether they'll sanction a much-embattled slate of amendments to the country's citizenship law that the parli ...
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