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Demography and Ethnic Politics in Independent Latvia: Some Basic Facts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Elmars Vebers
Elmars Vebers*
Affiliation:
Latvian Academy of Sciences
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Extract

Latvia is not a large country and, therefore, does not usually attract much attention. In addition, for several postwar decades, it did not exist as an independent country.

Type
From the Latvian Republic
Information
Nationalities Papers , Volume 21 , Issue 2: Special Issue - The Ex-Soviet Nationalities Without Gorbachev , Fall 1993 , pp. 179 - 194
Copyright
Copyright © 1993 by the Association for the Study of the Nationalities of the USSR and Eastern Europe, Inc. 

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Notes

1. Germanis, Uldis, Latviesu tautas piedzivojumi. Riga, 1991, p. 205.Google Scholar

2. Balodis, Agnis, Latviesu un latviesu vesture. Riga, 1991, p. 115.Google Scholar

3. Krastins, O., Mezgailis, B., & Smulders, M., Latvijas iedzivotaji (statistikas izzinas). Riga, 1990, p. 17.Google Scholar

4. Ibid., pp. 15–16.Google Scholar

5. Eglite, Parsla, Iedzivotaju ataudzes etniskie aspekti Latvija. Proceedings of the Latvia Academy of Sciences, 1991, 2, pp. 23–33.Google Scholar

6. Zvidrins, P., Demografiska krize. Diena, 1991, 17 junijs.Google Scholar

7. 71 percent of Latvia's total population live in the cities.Google Scholar

8. Latgale is the easternmost province of Latvia, bordering on Russia and Byelorussia, and has always had a higher percentage of non-Latvians than the other provinces.Google Scholar

9. Jolanta Mackova, Ko maskaviesi ieraudzija Riga? Diena, 1992, 21, April.Google Scholar

10. Unlike Denmark at the time of introduction of its automated Data System, Latvia possesses no reliable existing records about its population. It means that, here, all adult persons have to attend the registration centers: they have to be interviewed, forms must be filled in and documents checked. The frail, the sick and the elderly have to be visited at home. All this involves a great deal of time.Google Scholar