Latvians in Russia information

ethnic Latvian, down from 28,520 in 2002. There have been several waves of migration of Latvians to Russia following the annexation of the Latvian lands...

Latvians), 7% of Russians (22% of Latvians) were engaged in agriculture, 1% of Russians (2.5% of Latvians) in the sphere of culture and art. Russians...

that not only an overwhelming majority of non-Latvians but also some Latvians had enrolled in Russian-language schools. A January 12, 1989 article of...

The Latvian Operation (Russian: «Латышская операция», Latvian: „Latviešu operācija”) was a national operation of the NKVD against ethnic Latvians, Latvian...

Scandinavian, and Russian traditions. Latvians have an ancient culture that has been archaeologically dated back to 3000 BC. Latvians maintained a considerable...

federalist movement in Latvia in the early 1990s. They were fairly popular in the Russian community but very unpopular among ethnic Latvians. ForHRUL therefore...

and Latvians generally, and the majority were re-deployed to other fronts of the Russian Civil War. The remaining forces of the Red Army in Latvia were...

Rēzekne, ethnic Latvians constitute a minority of the total population. Despite a steadily increasing proportion of ethnic Latvians for more than a decade...

(unification of Latgalian Latvians and Baltic Latvians), which came only after the Bolshevik revolution. On July 5, 1917, the Russian Provisional Government...

TV Rain (Russian: Дождь, romanized: Dozhd, IPA: [ˈdoʂtʲ] ; stylized as ДО///ДЬ) is an independent Russian television channel. Launched in 2010, it has...

occupation of Latvia, the policy of Russification greatly affected the Latvian language. At the same time, the use of Latvian among the Latvians in Russia had already...

as many as 200,000 Latvians left the country. As of 2016, about 100,000 Latvians permanently lived in the United Kingdom. The Latvian diaspora provides...

of Latvians, under Swedish influences, adopted Lutheranism, while the minority (the remaining third) of Latvians under Poland-Lithuania, Latgale in particular...

Poland in 1772), Russian and Orthodox presence increased substantially, but the Eastern Orthodox Church remained foreign to the Latvians. The Latvian Orthodox...

the Latvian government returned to Riga. Jelgava was also captured by the Latvians in loss-making fights and by early December the entire West Russian Volunteer...

no Latvians among the workers, engineering-technical personnel, and directors (...); there are also those where most of the workers are Latvians, but...

elected as a member of the State Duma of the Russian Empire. After the First Latgale Latvians Congress in 1917, it was decided that Dvinsky, Lyutsinsky...

2011. Зарегистрирована партия Линдермана «Движение 13 января» "Latvians Reject Russian as Co-Official Language". The Moscow Times. February 20, 2012....

Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the largest country in the world by area, extending across...

three Estonians and three Latvians, functioned until 28 November 1918 without any international recognition except from Germany. In October 1918, the Chancellor...

Belarusians in Latvia (Belarusian: Беларусы Латвіі, romanized: Biełarusy Łatvii make up the country's third largest ethnic group after Latvians and Russians. According...

while in Latvia, ethnic Latvians made up only about half of the population. In contrast, in 1989 only 9.4% of Lithuania's population were Russians.[citation...

Andris (January 16, 2012). "Diaspora leaders ask Latvians worldwide to vote against referendum". Latvians Online. Archived from the original on July 7, 2019...

quoted in Waite's Vanguard of Nazism After the capture of Riga, the Freikorps were accused of killing 300 Latvians in Jelgava, 200 in Tukums, 125 in Daugavgrīva...

tongue, while Lithuanian is native for 27.8%, Russian - 14.6% of Latvians. 3.95% of Latvians are bilingual in terms that they have 2 mother tongues.[citation...

abolished, a Latvian nationalist movement, the First Latvian National Awakening, begun. Led by "Young Latvians", it encouraged Latvians to become artists...

of Latvian SSR. The breaking point came in summer 1988. Many prominent Latvians publicly announced their support for increased autonomy for Latvia. Latvian...