Latvian vote could see ethnic Russian party at the front
(WorldNews Europe)

HELSINKI (AP) - Saturday’s parliamentary election in Latvia - a Baltic member of the European Union and NATO - should see a political party catering to the country’s ethnic Russian minority win most votes but it remains unclear if it can find coalition partners to put it into power. Latvia, a nation of 2 million that borders Russia, has a sizable ethnic-Russian minority of around 25 percent, more if you count other Russian-speakers such as Belarussians and Ukrainians. That is a legacy of nearly 50 years of Soviet occupation that ended in 1991,...