Is it 1992? Inflation has long been in double digits, unemployment is inching up, and the Latvian economy is slowing down. Prominent business people are being gunned down on a weekly basis, Latvian passports are for sale on the international black market and, following a tit-for-tat expulsion of diplomats accused of spying, diplomatic relations with Russia are dire. To top it all, Latvia's new prime minister is Ivars Godmanis, a mumbling, lumbering veteran of the 1980s independence movement and the rapacious brutality of early post-Soviet politics. Of course, the scores of new apartment...
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