Elections in Latvia and the Crisis in Ukraine
Lesson Brief
BBC Russian
On October 5, BBC Russian reported that Russia's involvement in Ukraine may be contributing to a change in the sentiments of voters in other countries of the former Soviet Union. Latvia's parliamentary election was held on Saturday and its "pro-Russian" party "Soglasiye" lost seats to the other two large parties in Latvia and to smaller nationalist parties. According to political scientists, one major reason for the loss of support for "Soglasiye" is because of the crisis in Ukraine and the party's support of Vladimir Putin's ruling party in Russia, "United Russia."
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- restoration, reestablishment
- восстановление
- to support
- поддерживать/поддержать
- to interfere, to prevent, to disturb, to intervene
- мешать/помешать
- aggregate, total, summation
- совокупность
- to depend on + gen.
- зависеть от
- condemnation, conviction
- осуждение
- Saeima - Latvian Parliament
- Сейм
- presence, attendance
- присутствие
- to grow
- расти
- to force, to compel, to make
- заставлять/заставить