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• The numbers of ethnic Latvian and Russian speaking prisoners have equalled

According to the new Director of the Latvian Prison Administration Ilona Spure, the numbers of ethnic Latvian and Russian speaking prisoners in Latvian prisons have reached parity. In the past years, the number of Russian speaking prisoners was higher – about 65%. Vesti Segodnya