Latvia's forgotten few

  • 1999-07-22
  • Katya Cengel
He lives in the United States these days, but Dr. Aivars Slucis says he is concerned about Latvia's future. So concerned that he has placed seven large advertisements in papers such as the International Herald Tribune and The Washington Post that call Latvia's Russian-speaking population "colonizers" and appeal to Western governments to help remove them from Latvia."Western governments should announce that Russians should not be in Latvia and admit [the Russian presence] can cause problems like in the Balkans," said Slucis.Understandable fear of being associated with Slucis and other purvey...
 
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