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Marginalia writes on the “language issue” in Latvia - and in Russia: “Over at the corner store, after years of learning to shop in Russian, I finally asked whether the cashier ever planned to learn the word for milk in Latvian (it being emblazoned in large letters on every carton in the cooler). No — that would be diskriminatsiya, she said.”

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