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Latvians reject Russian as national language
Latvian voters resoundingly rejected a proposal to give official status to Russian, the mother tongue of their former Soviet occupiers, though the defeated referendum Saturday is expected to leave scars on an already divided society.Russian is the first language for about one-third of the Baltic country's 2.1 million people, and many of them would like to accord official status to the language to
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