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What official figures?
No one registered how much he stole that day. :D

Good article about Latvia in Soviet years:
Failed State Latvia?: The deeper roots of Latvia as a failed state lite
I really like this term - Anticivilization :) - fits Soviet Union perfectly.
A...

I would not call them "second-grade" - the only difference is voting rights.
And as I said - most russians ARE citizens...

If I posted something like previous Basil77's post on Latvian Russian...

But they do not have problems to emigrate to UK and Ireland. Which is way further than Russia and there Russian is not official too.

Yes, and after 1918 when Latvia became independent - everyone (including Russians, Germans, Jews) received citizenship automatically.
And in 1990 their citizenship was restored with no questions...

Solution is to encourage everyone living in Latvia to know and use Latvian.
They can use any language they want in informal communication.
Not to make something like Belgium.
If someone really...

Yes - in 1935 Latvians were 75% of population (Russians were about 10%, the rest were Germans and Jews), but in 1989 only 52% - and if Soviet Union continued to exist for some ~20 years, share would...

As I said - we have the same problems here.
For example - parliament deputy Valery Kravcov (he is not the only one, but most notorious) - he does not understand Latvian almost at all.
Can you...

Before Nazi invasion there were no problems with Jews in Baltics.
In Latvia yiddish was one of the official languages - you could speak in it in the parliament.
Antisemitic and Nazi...

Baltic states did not - Russia on the other hand...

I said that they pay interest, not debt itself...

Superpower can rapidly become a 3rd world country - that happened to USSR.
USA also are not guaranteed to last forever.

And US are paying interest on their debt all the time - if they stop - no...

Yeah - Hanna - would you like that in Sweden police arrest you simply for going down the street?

You should have visited Latvia in 2006 or 2007 :D
poor oppressed russian speakers :D
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Im prettty sure - 70% of population in my district are non-Latvians.
And I have NEVER met a russian that asks: "Ты понимаеш по русски?".

Latvian is easier than Russian :P

Possibly because they learn Swedish and do not ask Belarussian to be official language, like some Russians here in Latvia.
It's amazing actually - one day someone asked me directions in Russian -...

That's because USSR's production cannot compete with real world.
Even cheapest imported things (like plastic bags and chewing gum :D) were almost idolized in Soviet times when people got hands on...

Skimmed through the last link - what Hudson actually recommends is - to restart "fat years" again - thank you very much.
Not try to not live higher that you can afford (even if it hurts in a short...

Do you think that we should be prostituting ourselves to Russia?
Lukashenko already tried that - and see where that got him.
He has two options now.
1. Resign and start a democracy in Belarus....

So if you are low skilled worker (and took unpayable credit during "fat years" for bonus points :D) then your life could be really hard now.
But if you did not take any bad credits (or took credits...

Look at Greece - their salaries are higher - and look where such policies got them.
Actually so-called crisis was a good thing - most of population learned a lesson that you cannot live off borrowed...

Yes Basil77, but look a bit further -
File:Ethnic groups in Latvia.png - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
And you will see that number of ethnic Latvians was +/- constant all the time (but is...

That's Right - Latvia should end this segregation and close ALL russian schools immediately :D

Requests to extradite criminals are not "moaning about wounds".

This unborn baby was a fucking nazi collaborator - Kononov did a very good job neutralizing him.

Of course there was, but I think that there is a difference between battle-hardened Gestapo...

January Events (Lithuania) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Hanna - maybe do some research first...