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 Latvia–Russia relations Russians in Latvia Latvian Operation of the NKVD Тома официальной...
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city is Riga. Latvians belong to the ethnolinguistic group of the Balts and speak Latvian. Russians are the most prominent minority in the country, at...
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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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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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Riga (redirect from Riga, Latvia)
of Latvia, as well as one of the most populous cities in the Baltic States. Home to 605,273 inhabitants, the city accounts for a third of Latvia's total...
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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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The Latvia–Russia 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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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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Russification (redirect from Russification of Latvia)
Russification (Russian: русификация, romanized: rusifikatsiya), or Russianization, is a form of cultural assimilation in which non-Russians, whether involuntarily...
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ancestry is based in Kievan Rus'. The Russian word for the Russians is derived from the people of Rus' and the territory of Rus'. Russians share many historical...
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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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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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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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stereotypes about Russians still exist, notably in the Western world. Some individuals may have prejudice or hatred against Russians due to history, racism...
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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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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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Baltic states under Soviet rule (1944–1991) (redirect from Baltic states in the Soviet Union (1944-1991))
lost its Jewish minority. There was a difference in perception of ethnic Russians. Ethnic Russians who had migrated to Lithuania before the 1940 annexation...
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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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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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Soviet re-occupation of the Baltic states (1944) (category 1944 in Latvia)
that he had told the Russians they could take over and control Romania, Bulgaria, Bukovina, Eastern Poland, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, and Finland. The...
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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 from November 1918...
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Baltic states (redirect from Tourism in the Baltics)
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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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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