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Latvia: Border Dispute

Thursday, January 25th, 2007 @ 18:01 UTC

by Veronica Khokhlova

Countries:: Latvia, Russia
Topics:: Arts & Culture, Development, Governance, History, Human Rights, Law, Protest, Travel, Agriculture, Politics

Marginalia writes about Latvia's border dispute with Russia and about “putting things in order”: “When a state “puts things in order,” it has a sad tendency to forget real people and real places, methinks.”

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