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Latvia: liberalisation of citizenship laws

01 September 1998

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Latvians have voted in a referendum for the liberalisation of citizenship laws. This result will simplify the naturalisation of Latvia's Russian speaking population. When Latvia gained its independence in 1991, it refused automatic citizenship to 650,000 Russian speakers. The EU and the USA have warned the Latvian government that a No vote could damage the country's ambition to join western institutions.

Financial Times, 5.10.98; see Statewatch, vol 6 no 3.

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