[Grzegorz 246]

"Fine. The Latvians should make a deal with Putin to give Russian passports and residency visas to those who don't want to be assimilated."

Good idea, but Puti wouldn't agree. If these Russians in Latvia got citizenship, Puti would send them cash and help organize political party, which with this help would be able to take control over the country. Russians minorities are a very important part of Kremlin strategy - Russians enclaves in Moldova and Caucasian countries are still occupy by Russians soldiers.

BTW I think that this kind of test would be useful in Western Europe in a case of Muslim immigrants. Now I'm waiting when someone will call me a racist.

[jb6]

Yes, again, changing the subject. This thread is not about immigrants, it's about people born in Latvia and denied citizenship. Lets try to stick to the subject instead of morphing it into something defendable.

[jb6]

Maybe the Sorbs in Germany should be forced to apply for German citizenship?

[Modernman]

BTW I think that this kind of test would be useful in Western Europe in a case of Muslim immigrants.

Maybe, but that's a separate issues. We're not talking about immigrants when we're discussing Russians in Latvia.