Economic difficulties, political upheavals, and justice system embarrassments marked the yearby Nick Coleman The year 1999 was one of uncertainty and compromise. Struggling to get over the previous year’s financial crisis in Russia that had spilled over into its territory, Latvia hovered precariously in no-man’s land, between the Soviet past and anticipated integration into Western economic and defense structures. Gross […]

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