Oskars Kastens, Latvia's Minister for Social Integration, is a hard man to like. Smug and intellectually vacuous, he is in many ways the very embodiment of the modern Latvian politician. As with so many other contemporary politicians in Latvia and elsewhere, Kastens is little more than a television-friendly clothes-horse (and as an ex-journalist, he certainly recognizes the critical relationship between media and politics in the modern age). Rather like the political party he represents (Latvia's First Party/Latvia's Way, known by its Latvian acronym LPP/LC) he has no guiding political phil...
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