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• Nationalists union submitted to the Saeima draft amendments to the Citizenship Law stipulating dual citizenship
• Publicist Marina Kostenecka: Russian speaking residents of Latvia got betrayed after the restoration of independence

Nationalists’ union All for Latvia!-For Fatherland and Freedom/LNIM submitted to the Saeima the draft amendments to the Citizenship Law stipulating dual citizenship. Authors of the draft amendments propose to allow dual citizenship for those persons and their descendants who were forced to leave Latvia as refugees or got deported from the country and to those Latvian citizens who left Latvia for permanent residence in other country after restoration of independence. The dual citizenship would be possible only with Switzerland, Australia, Brazil, the EU and the NATO countries.

Nationalists union All for Latvia!-For Fatherland and Freedom/LNIM submitted to the Saeima the draft amendments to the Citizenship Law stipulating dual citizenship. Authors of the draft amendments propose to allow dual citizenship for those persons and their descendants who were forced to leave Latvia as refugees or got deported from the country and to those Latvian citizens who left Latvia for permanent residence in other country after restoration of independence. The dual citizenship would be possible only with Switzerland, Australia, Brazil, the EU and the NATO countries. Latvijas Avize, Diena

Well known Latvian publicist and ex-activist of the Popular Front (a movement which brought about independence) Marina Kostenecka in an interview with

Well known Latvian publicist and ex-activist of the Popular Front (a movement which brought about independence) Marina Kostenecka in an interview with Diena states that Russian speaking residents of Latvia got betrayed after the restoration of states independence. According to Mrs. Kostenecka, there was large number of Russian speakers at the barricades in January 1991 who stood against totalitarian regime and they were ready to live in this country and to build it together. However, after the restoration of independence Russian speakers were marked as enemies.