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Scisca said:

You guys do have a crazy situation there. Russians opt not to have citizenship, cause this way they may enter Russia, Belarus and some other countries without a visa, while should they become Latvians, they'd need to apply and pay for a visa. And still, the Russian party wins all elections, just that they can never enter into a coalition Having over a quarter of your population be Russian is a huge problem if you ask me, that's why I'm so shocked you feel so secure. I'm happy there are next to no Russians in my country, one less problem. I don't envy you.

It is not nearly as bad as it seems on paper. Many russians have integrated, especially the younger generations, and speak our language and are loyal to Latvia. We had a referendum a few years ago on Russian becoming the second official language in Latvia, of course this referendum failed badly, there is no way in hell Russian will ever become second language here, but around 200k russians voted yes, it is around 10% of population, so as you see it is not nearly 30% of population that is somewhat against Latvia but just 10% which is still a lot though.



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