The Latvian parliament has passed a declaration demanding compensation from Russia for losses caused by the USSR.
62 of 100 MPs voted in favor of the document, and it will be handed over to the Latvian government soon.
According to the declaration, the government is due to set up a special commission that will calculate the losses. To calculate the exact sum, Latvian officials will ask Russia to give them access to the Kremlin’s archives.
Two variants of the declaration were considered by the Latvian parliament; it backed a much more liberal draft than that proposed by the Union of Greens and Peasants. The party suggested that 500,000 Russian nationals be deported from the country.
After the collapse of the USSR, Latvia and Estonia did not give citizenship to Russians who moved there during Soviet times. As a result, a huge part of the population was stripped of basic rights in both countries.
This problem has been a stumbling block in Russia’s bilateral relations with the two counties in recent years. Moscow has tried to press the European Union, which Latvia and Estonia joined in 2004, but EU officials refuse to acknowledge the existence of the “non-citizens problem”.
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