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Latvia confused about March 16: Jewish community will not mark commemoration day

Mar 11, 1999
Steven C. Johnson

RIGA - When veterans of the Latvian Legion parade through Riga March 16, the Latvian flag will be conspicuously absent from at least one building in town. "[The commemoration] is absolutely inadmissible and this is our way of telling the country that," said Gregory Krupnikov, chairman of the country's 11,000-strong Latvian-Jewish Community. Krupnikov announced last week that the community's building on Elizabetes Street 51 will not fly the Latvian flag as required by law on official holidays and ...

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