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28.04.2009, 20:42
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The Baltic state of Latvia is demanding $712 million (356 million lat) from Russia for environmental damage allegedly caused during the Soviet era.
22.04.2009, 01:20
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Russian politicians are looking at measures to combat the rise in Neo-Nazi sympathizers across former Soviet states.
21.03.2009, 17:54
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Latvian nationalists have come up with an idea to hand over photos of cars with Russian and Soviet symbols to police. They claim this data will help reveal ‘the most aggressive colonists’.
24.01.2009, 11:39
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A political row has broken out in Latvia over the commemoration in a Riga war cemetery of Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini.
09.01.2009, 17:08
The collapse of the Soviet Union has brought with it ongoing tension in Latvia. Latvia’s attempts to protect its culture have led to accusations of discrimination.
24.06.2009, 05:31
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It was an election that was snatched from the Iranian people – or at least that's the impression being given by Western media outlets. But are they telling the full story?
22.04.2010, 16:11
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On June 27 this year Kyrgyzstan will hold a referendum on changes to the constitution. Later, on October 10, parliamentary elections will also take place.
06.08.2010, 17:30
Bronislaw Komorowski has been officially sworn in as Poland's new leader. It comes just four months after the tragic death of late President Lech Kaczynski and a delegation of Polish officials in a plane crash.
05.03.2010, 17:40
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The US House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee has approved a resolution that recognizes the World War I-era deaths of Armenians in Ottoman-era Turkey as an act of “genocide”.
05.02.2010, 17:24
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The leader of the radical Palestinian party Hamas, Khaled Mashal, will visit Moscow next week to discuss ways of ending the Palestinian split and how to resume the Palestinian-Israeli negotiations.
Published: 11 May, 2009, 09:16
A new Latvian party boasts the namesakes of Russia's top politicians president Medvedev, PM Putin, and FM Lavrov, hoping it will help it succeed.
