After years of delay, Latvia has officially asked the United Nations to recognize the country's 50 years spent under the Soviet thumb, as Steven C. Johnson reports.The icy relations that formed this year between Latvia and Russia have appeared to thaw a little in recent months.First, the Russian radar base in the western Latvian town of Skrunda was closed down on schedule, with smiles on both sides. Then, when voters decided in a referendum to ease the naturalization process for roughly 600,000 stateless Russians, even Moscow had to offer its reserved approval.So what should be made of Latv...
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