HU OSA 300-85-12:35/5

Geography: Latvia

География: Латвия

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excerpted resource, legislative material, press survey, wit and humour

Press surveys, newspaper clippings, legislative acts. Topics: declaration of independence of Ust’-Dvinsk, the status of the Russian language in Latvia, Soviet troops in the Baltic states, unemployment, migration, the Congress of Latvian citizens, the political activity of the Crimean Tatars, the new director of the House of Press in Riga, environmental problems, explosions in Riga, the project of a new union in Estonia and Latvia, new law on pensions, disarmament of riot police, draft law on citizenship, Lutheran church, dysentery epidemic, privatization, draft law on political parties and socio-political organizations in Latvia, prostitution, law on alternative service, Estonian and Latvian volunteers in the United States, United council of labor collectives of Latvia, strikes against declaration of independence, national question, negotiations with Yeltsin, conference on civil rights in Riga.