• In Latvia, Russians have been the largest ethnic minority in the country for the last two centuries. The number of Russians in Latvia more than quadrupled...
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    Lithuania's population are ethnic Russians. Russians make up around one third of the population of Latvia's capital, Riga. In the second largest city Daugavpils...
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    the population, whereas 25.4% of the population were ethnic Russians. The modern Latvian language has retained a number of loanwords borrowed from Old...
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  • political party in Latvia supported mainly by ethnic Russians and other Russian-speaking minorities. The co-chairpersons of the Latvian Russian Union are Miroslavs...
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    minority rights Voice of Russia. 25 August 2012. Retrieved 19 June 2013 Latvia: Treatment of ethnic Russians; whether ethnic Russians face discrimination;...
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    Liberation Army during World War II Latvia portal Russia portal LatviaRussia relations Russians in Latvia Latvian Operation of the NKVD Тома официальной...
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    ethnic Latvians said they could speak Russian, and 52% of Russians could speak Latvian in the 2000 census. In August 2019, the Central Statistical Bureau...
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    Azerbaijan Russians in Belarus Russians in Estonia Russians in Georgia Russians in Kazakhstan Russians in Kyrgyzstan Russians in Latvia Russians in Lithuania...
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    but against the hated German barons. For in Latvia most did not feel primarily oppressed by Russia or Russians, but by the Baltic Germans —roughly seven...
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    Latvia (/ˈlætviə/ LAT-vee-ə, sometimes /ˈlɑːtviə/ LAHT-vee-ə; Latvian: Latvija Latvian pronunciation: [ˈlatvija]), officially the Republic of Latvia is...
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    aliens (Latvian: nepilsoņi) in Latvian law are individuals who are not citizens of Latvia or any other country, but who, in accordance with the Latvian law...
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  • of the Soviet Union in 1991, about 25 million Russians (about a sixth of the former Soviet Russians) found themselves outside Russia and were about 10%...
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    Riga (redirect from Riga, Latvia)
    city of Latvia, as well as the most populous city in the Baltic States. Home to 609,489 inhabitants, the city accounts for a third of Latvia's total population...
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    referendums to change Latvia's constitution for minorities' benefit. Russian language in Latvia Language policy in Latvia Russians in Latvia Maksimovtsova, Ksenia...
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    The LatviaRussia border is the state border between Republic of Latvia (EU member) and the Russian Federation (CIS member). The length of the border...
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    Russian resistance to the independence movement and purported to represent the ethnic Russians and other Russophones in Estonia. Today most Russians live...
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    The Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic (Latvian SSR), also known as Soviet Latvia or simply Latvia, was de facto one of the constituent republics of the...
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    monument (72% ethnic Latvians and only 9% ethnic Russians), while 25% didn’t support it (76% ethnic Russians and only 10% ethnic Latvians). On 22 August 2022...
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    The three Baltic states – Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania – were re-occupied in 1944–1945 by the Soviet Union (USSR) following the German occupation. The...
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    Russification (Russian: русификация, romanized: rusifikatsiya), or Russianization, is a form of cultural assimilation in which non-Russians, whether involuntarily...
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    conflicts in Latvia between 5 December 1918, after the newly proclaimed Republic of Latvia was invaded by Soviet Russia, and the signing of the Latvian-Soviet...
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    identified as ethnic Russians are the Russian nation, another is the All-Russian nation concept developed in the Russian Empire that views Russians as having three...
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    states Russians in Estonia Russians in Latvia Russians in Lithuania Tourism in Estonia Tourism in Latvia Tourism in Lithuania Baltics deportations: Soviet...
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  • from Latvia were a series of mass deportations by the Soviet Union from Latvia in 1941 and 1945–1951, in which around 60,000 inhabitants of Latvia were...
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  • For the Native Language! (category Russian nationalism in Latvia)
    socialism. National Bolshevik Party 2012 Latvian constitutional referendum Russians in Latvia Non-citizens (Latvia) Зарегистрирована партия Линдермана "Движение...
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  • Harmony Centre (category Russian political parties in Latvia)
    represent the interests of Russians in Latvia. Founded on 9 July 2005, Harmony Centre emerged from For Human Rights in a United Latvia, an electoral alliance...
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    the Russian-speaking minority. Latvia was one of the last regions in Europe to be Christianized. The inhabitants of the region that is now Latvia once...
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    Tatjana Ždanoka (category Latvian people of Russian-Jewish descent)
    co-chairwoman of the Latvian Russian Union and its predecessor parties (Equal Rights and For Human Rights in a United Latvia) since 1993. In 2024 she was accused...
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  • including ethnic Latvians as well as Russians dates back to the 1840s, when native Latvians (who were at that time subjects of the Russian Empire) petitioned...
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    The West Russian Volunteer Army or Bermontians was a pro-German military formation in Latvia and Lithuania during the Russian Civil War in 1918–20. The...
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