Please refresh the page and retry. I t's Independence Day in Latvia! To mark the date, here are a few things you probably didn't know about the Baltic nation. An estimated As many as , were subsequently imprisoned in Soviet gulags between and Just west of Riga lies Jurmala, a summer holiday favourite of Brezhnev and Khrushchev.
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She was about three and a half years old. But they have taken a certain number of civilians with them, who also want to flee from communism at any price. Latvians gathered on the deck and sang the Latvian anthem. The family ended up in a refugee camp in Germany. A year later another child was born in the family.
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Westley Capper, 41, from Essex, was found guilty of a lesser crime of coercion relating to the way he got waitress Agnese Klavina, 30, to leave with him outside the Aqwa Mist nightclub, in Costa del Sol. Expat Capper received a two-year prison sentence and Porter was handed a six-month jail term but they are both likely to walk free because under Spanish law sentences of two years or less for first-time offenders are normally suspended. MORE: Dog rescues newborn baby buried alive by mum, 15, who wanted to hide pregnancy. Capper had insisted he dropped Ms Klavina, from Latvia, off near a flat she was staying at after she changed her mind about going back to his house to party on September 6,
Over the year in Latvia, the total number of marriages fell by 0. Last year, males and females aged 60 and over registered marriage one year ago those were males and females. Out of all people registering marriage during the year, elderly people accounted for 7.