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TVNET :: Общество - Подписи за русский язык поданы в ЦИК - Elections are coming, совоки are fishing for votes :D

To not further delay USSR dissolution topic I will respond here.
If one of parents is a citizen - citizenship is granted automatically.
People who are born to non-citizens after 1991 - if they are...

This is not a problem here - go buy something and you will see that there are descriptions in many more languages than just Latvian.

Maybe you did not hear them, but according to official...

Since ~2005 official policy is to have 60% of lessons in Latvian and 40% in Russian.
Tax-funded higher education is available in Latvian only (and English for foreign exchange students).
And this...

Ok, maybe I was too harsh. I do not think that russians should be discriminated against - and maybe Russian language should have greater status.
But there should be a discussion about it - Russians...

Everyone will be FORCED to learn Russian to a good level, but Latvian will be marginalized again - just like in Soviet times.
People remember this "enrichment" too well.

Russia (at least under...

I do not really want my country to be like Belgium or Canada - each is basically two countries that are holding together with a duck tape.
Two regions in which many people do not understand other...

. Russians are only ~25% of the population. The rest of non-Latvians are Ukrainians, Belarussians, Poles, Lithuanians, Jews, Roma, etc...
Do we need to make these languages official too?

If you are telking about my grandfather. He was deported because he did not want to serve in the Red army.

That's right mergike - покажи ем кузкину мать :D

Authoritarian regimes are partly at fault here.
If Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Poland, and Finland (and maybe some other central European countries too) had united in some kind of Central-North...

Please look some posts above - I already said that people who were citizens of Latvia and their descendants before 1940 did not lose anything - they regained their citizenship regardless of...

Thanks for correcting me Throbert - I was not paying attention :) .
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I really love texts like "На Берлин" and "T-34" on German made cars :D:D -...

Latvians have very mixed opinions about him. Some view his reign as a golden age for Latvia.
But some think that we should not honor him because he destroyed our democracy and gave our country to...

Even if majority of parliament supports Russian as official language (they don't) - there still needs to be a referendum.
Currently majority of Latvians simply do not want to give it any status -...

They wanted to expand their empire - it's that simple - more people to oppress, more slaves for the GULAG, more resources to loot and exploit.
Sweden was lucky - if Finland had lost the Winter War,...

After Georgian war in 2008 there is a good reason to worry about that.

Zatlers’ official visit to Moscow did not change Russia’s attitude towards Latvia | BNN-NEWS.COM
Except Russia apparently.
It is problematic to do business with Russia when Latvia is considered an...

More on this.
Latvian SSR ceased to exist like the rest of Soviet Union.
Latvia after 1990 was NOT a new country like Belarus or Ukraine.
We restored pre-WW2 Latvia with the same constitution,...

Yes, it is quite popular here.

Completely agree.
But there are people who do not respect this country, and also do not want to go anywhere else.


As I said - many people (me included) can...

Im, an ethnic Latvian from Latvia.
Some comments about Hanna's posts.



Yes, some chauvinists (Osipov, Linderman, local stalinist party PCTVL(ЗАПЧЁЛ)) are spreading bullshit about nazism here....