Ryszard Stankiewicz, head of the Polish society of “Promen′” in the city of Daugavpils, Latvia, told a correspondent BakuToday the history of Poles in Latvia, its relation to the referendum on giving the status of the Russian language and multi-cultural city of Daugavpils.

The Chairman of the Central Council of Latvia, the Drevlepravoslavnoj Church of Pomor coach First Daugavpils staroverskoj community Alex N. Žilko. Illustration: staroverec.lv

The last couple of years the situation in Latvia felt the roof-to such an extent that some of its inhabitants began to seriously wonder: rather than become the territory of the Republic in the near future, the scene of armed clashes?

January 27 commemorates the day that the Soviet troops entered and liberated the concentration camp of Auschwitz in 1945. The UNO uses this day as a benchmark but let us use every day as a benchmark against intolerance, exclusion, racism and xenophobia.