5105>by Andrejs Plakans The year 1998 – marking Latvia’s 80th anniversary as an independent state – demonstrated that the country’s ongoing search for improvements in all domains of life could easily be sidetracked. The generally good economic performance of 1997 continued in the first third of 1998; and the signing of the US-Baltic Charter on 16 January by Estonia, Latvia, […]
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