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Polls open in historic Latvian language referendum

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Voting stations in Latvia have opened in a historic referendum on whether to make Russian the nation's second national language.

 

Latvia's minority Russians, who make up approximately one-third of the Baltic country's 2.1 million people, believe that according official status to the Russian language will reverse what they claim has been 20 years of discrimination. (AP)

 

 

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