Latvia is the heir of the two historical regions of Livonia and Courland, respectively from 1721 and from 1795 under the control of Russia, occupied by the Germans in the First World War. The awakening of a Latvian national consciousness, developed especially after 1905 and favored by the Russian revolution of 1917, led to the…
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Latvia Society
Social conditions Latvia is one of the poorer EU countries. Since the mid-1990s, the country, like the other Baltic states, has experienced strong economic growth, with the exception of the last years of the 1990s when the country suffered a serious financial crisis. Prosperity is unevenly distributed in the country and the differences grew even…