LATVIAN PRESIDENT URGES RUSSIA TO RETURN SOVIET-ERA ARCHIVES.

Addressing the Association of [Soviet-era] Deported Latvian Children on the Memorial Day of Victims of Communist Terror, President Guntis Ulmanis called on Russia to return to Latvia the archives that document Soviet repression. Ulmanis expressed concern that the archives may be destroyed in Russia, to where they were arbitrarily relocated. Ulmanis was himself deported to Siberia as a child. (BNS, Interfax, March 26) Moscow has stonewalled Ulmanis’ long-pending proposal that he visit Moscow and Siberian deportation sites.

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