Latvians hunger-strike over language
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Four Latvian human rights advocates began a hunger strike Monday to protest their government's insistence on teaching Latvian instead of Russian in schools.
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Food, fuel, and know-how are flowing into the totalitarian state, but citizens are dispirited.
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Early results from Latvia's parliamentary election on Saturday showed Prime Minister Aigars Kalvitis and his centre-right coalition heading for a commanding victory.
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Latvia's new government will have its work cut out, reining in the Baltic EU member's soaring inflation rate, with experts predicting price increases are unlikely to ease until late next year.
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The Russian Foreign Ministry has expressed regret in relation to what it called untactful public statements made by Latvian President Vaira Vike-Freiberga about the upcoming May 9 celebrations to mark the 60th ...
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By Jorgen JohanssonRIGA - Latvia's minority center-right coalition government extended its lead in the opinion polls on Friday, enhancing its chances of a return to power in Saturday's general election.Pollster ...Comment
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Recent studies in the capital have shown a remarkable trend - more schoolchildren in Riga are now attending Latvian language schools than minority ones.
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The OSCE Human Rights commissioner Rolf Ekeus has called upon the Latvian Seim not to increase the share of Lettish in the ethnic minorities education.
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Language tensions overshadow the new school year in Moldova's breakaway Trans-dniester region.
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Latvia accuses Belarus of a serious provocation over the treatment of one of its diplomats.
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Students protesting in the Old Riga last week. They are holding the sign that reads: We are not Russian Latvians; we are Latvian Russians.The law that came into effect in September stipulates that at least 60 ...
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Only 10 percent of Latvia's residents aged 18 to 65 regularly observe the November 18 Independence Day of the Republic of Latvia, according to a public opinion survey that "Marketing House" carried out in ...
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Latvian President Vaira Vike-Freiberga believes the Baltic leaders should not attend in Moscow the celebration of the 60th anniversary of victory in the Great Patriotic War.
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The World Federation of Free Latvians (WFFL) calls on politicians to be aware of their responsibility for Latvia's future and not pass a bill that bans persons with dual citizenship from taking top positions in ...
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The authorities of the Latvian capital Riga will need several weeks to start considering the request for renaming the street bearing the name of Johar Dudayev - the leader of Chechen separatists in the early ...
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Unions at Alitalia airlines are harshly criticizing plans to slash 5,000 jobs at the ailing Italian company. One of Alitalia&#39;s smaller unions said it would stage a hunger strike to protest the cuts.
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Officials pushed to get food and water to children and adult hostages that may number more than 1,000 held in a school here for a third day by militants who are demanding independence for the Russian republic of Chechnya.